1.8 d. New State Capitol
The current Louisiana State Capitol is the tallest capitol building in the United States.
The current Louisiana State Capitol is the tallest capitol building in the United States.
Experimenting and improvising are important parts of this American musical form.
The Old State Capitol in Baton Rouge is now a museum.
A popular term in Louisiana usually tied to the gifting of something small—or a little something extra—with a purchase.
By studying artifacts, archaeologists know that people were in Louisiana at least 13,000 years ago.
People of the Plaquemine, Caddo, and Mississippian cultures lived in Louisiana between 300 and 800 years ago during a time known as the Mississippi period.
People of the Tchefuncte, Marksville, Troyville, and Coles Creek cultures lived in Louisiana during the Woodland period.
People from the Clovis culture and San Patrice culture were some of Louisiana’s earliest inhabitants.
Bernardo de Gálvez, the fourth governor of Spanish Louisiana, is best known for leading Louisiana militia troops against the British during the American Revolution.
When forced by a French commander to leave their village, Natchez men responded by attacking the French settlement of Fort Rosalie.
The Chitimacha Tribe is the only federally recognized tribe in Louisiana to still occupy part of its ancestral territory.
Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, sieur de Bienville, served as governor of Louisiana and founded the city of New Orleans.
The capture of Port Hudson in Louisiana gave Union forces control of the Mississippi River and was a significant turning point in the Civil War.
Federal forces occupied New Orleans, a strategic city at the mouth of the Mississippi River, from 1862 until the end of Reconstruction.
Oscar James Dunn became one of the first Black men in the United States to serve in an executive political position when he was elected lieutenant governor of Louisiana in 1868.
“Carpetbagger” and “scalawag” were derogatory terms used to describe white Republicans from the North or southern-born radicals during Reconstruction.
During World War I, the federal government expanded its power and reach, while social and cultural movements transformed the world in which most Americans, including Louisianans, lived.
One of the most destructive storms in Louisiana history, Hurricane Betsy made landfall on September 9, 1965.
Ruby Bridges, along with Leona Tate, Gail Etienne, and Tessie Prevost, was one of the first Black students to desegregate an all-white public school in New Orleans.
The Federal Art Project and Federal Writers Project helped employ out-of-work artists and writers during the Great Depression.
The French Civil Code of 1804 standardized civil law in France, becoming a model legal framework for jurisdictions around the world, including Louisiana.
This distinct form of government exists in more than half of Louisiana’s parishes.
The Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana is the largest of four federally recognized tribal governments in Louisiana.
The Tunica-Biloxi Tribe is one of only four American Indian groups in Louisiana recognized by the federal government.
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