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.
Gumbo is a thick soup popular in Louisiana.
New Orleans is the birthplace of the large, round sandwich known as the muffuletta.
King cakes are a sweet bread or pastry usually decorated in purple, green, and gold.
During the Archaic period, people from the Evans culture built large mounds made of dirt.
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.
By studying artifacts, archaeologists know that people were in Louisiana at least 13,000 years ago.
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.
Alejandro O’Reilly served as the second Spanish governor of Louisiana from 1769 to 1770.
By the end of Spanish rule, Louisiana was a stable colonial outpost.
Known today as Isleños, Canary Islanders migrated to southeast Louisiana in the late eighteenth century.
This entry covers the Louisiana Purchase of 1803 and the period of territorial governance that followed until Louisiana became a state in 1812.
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.
The Battle of New Orleans, the last major conflict in the War of 1812, was fought between British and American forces on January 8, 1815.
Caesar Carpentier “C. C.” Antoine served as Louisiana’s lieutenant governor from 1873 to 1877.
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.
Corrupt democratic politician Leander Perez Sr., a staunch segregationist, served as a district judge, district attorney, and president of the Plaquemines Parish Commission Council.
A US Supreme Court decision handed down in 1896 enacted “separate but equal” as the law of the land, a doctrine of racial segregation that lasted nearly six decades.
Huey Long rose from ordinary beginnings in Winn Parish to become Louisiana’s most famous politician.
The Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana is the largest of four federally recognized tribal governments in Louisiana.
This distinct form of government exists in more than half of Louisiana’s parishes.
The Tunica-Biloxi Tribe is one of only four American Indian groups in Louisiana recognized by the federal government.
The French Civil Code of 1804 standardized civil law in France, becoming a model legal framework for jurisdictions around the world, including Louisiana.
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