
1.8 e. King Cake
King cakes are a sweet bread or pastry usually decorated in purple, green, and gold.
King cakes are a sweet bread or pastry usually decorated in purple, green, and gold.
This spicy sauce is made in Louisiana and sold around the world.
This place of religious worship is one of New Orleans’s best-known buildings.
Beignets are a powdered sugar–covered treat.
Poverty Point in Louisiana, one of the most significant archaeological sites in in the world, dates to 3,500 years and represents the largest, most complex settlement of its kind in North America.
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.
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.
The Third Treaty of San Ildefonso traded the colony of Louisiana from Spain back to France and played a role in the events that led to the Louisiana Purchase.
The Treaty of Fontainebleau shifted ownership of western Louisiana and New Orleans from France to Spain during the French and Indian War.
Known today as Isleños, Canary Islanders migrated to southeast Louisiana in the late eighteenth century.
Caesar Carpentier “C. C.” Antoine served as Louisiana’s lieutenant governor from 1873 to 1877.
The post-Civil War period is known as the Reconstruction era, when the former Confederacy was brought back into the Union.
Two French brothers notorious for smuggling and slave trading also participated in the Battle of New Orleans.
The Caddo people, who began to inhabit the Red River valley approximately 2,500 years ago, were eventually pushed out of their traditional territory by Anglo-American immigrants.
One of the most destructive storms in Louisiana history, Hurricane Betsy made landfall on September 9, 1965.
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.
More than two thousand people across South Louisiana lost their lives in the Cheniere Caminada Hurricane, making it one of Louisiana’s deadliest storms.
During the Great Depression farm prices in Louisiana reached unheard-of lows and deepened rural poverty.
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.
The French Civil Code of 1804 standardized civil law in France, becoming a model legal framework for jurisdictions around the world, including Louisiana.
Celebrating Louisiana Musical Legends in the Classroom
Celebrating Louisiana Musical Legends in the Classroom
Celebrating Louisiana Musical Legends in the Classroom
Celebrating Louisiana Musical Legends in the Classroom
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