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1.8 f. Lucky Dogs
Lucky Dogs are sold on New Orleans streetcorners from giant hot dog–shaped carts.
Lucky Dogs are sold on New Orleans streetcorners from giant hot dog–shaped carts.
This place of religious worship is one of New Orleans’s best-known buildings.
King cakes are a sweet bread or pastry usually decorated in purple, green, and gold.
This historic building in New Orleans has played an important role in Louisiana’s government and is now a museum.
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.
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.
In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, several expeditions explored the area that would later become known as Louisiana.
Both French and British colonists sought alliances with the Natchez Indians, an American Indian group with settlements along the Lower Mississippi River.
When forced by a French commander to leave their village, Natchez men responded by attacking the French settlement of Fort Rosalie.
Alejandro O’Reilly served as the second Spanish governor of Louisiana from 1769 to 1770.
After the Louisiana Purchase, lawmakers passed numerous restrictions against free people of color, though they still experienced some economic gains and opportunities.
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.
When Hurricane Camille made landfall in 1969, it devastated communities and caused widespread damage to Louisiana’s oil and gas infrastructure.
In the late 1800s Americans witnessed a period of rapid industrialization and political transformation that drew some Louisianans to the Populist movement.
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.
The Second World War allowed for economic growth and increased opportunities for women and African Americans 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.
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.
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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