Louisiana was deeply affected by the Great Depression when cotton, sugar, oil, and timber values plummeted in addition to the crippling of the port in New Orleans with the precipitous decline in foreign trade.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal brought jobs and resources to Louisiana during the Great Depression.
Sharecropping was a labor that came out of the Civil War and lasted until the 1950s.
During World War I (1914-1918), Louisiana underwent fundamental changes to its society, culture, and economy.
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