Populism and Progressive Era in LA

Bourbon Democrats believed

• slavery was wrong

• equality between all non-whites and whites was essential

• African Americans should not have equal rights, Jim Crow laws should be enforced, African Americans should not have right to vote

• government should fund public school giving all students black and white an education

The first ____________ was established in Jennings, LA in 1901.

• Paper Mill

• Natural Gas Plant

• Automotive Plant

• Oil Well

This supreme court case declared segregation as legal

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Marbury v. Madison

• Jefferson v. Jackson

Established by Bourbon democrats, this corrupt organization made millions and gave very little to the people of Louisiana

• New Orleans Ring

• Convict Lease System

• Louisiana Lottery Company

• Jefferson League

Policy that allowed private citizens and businesses to rent prisoners to work for them. Led to brutal conditions for prisoners and a high mortality rate.

• Louisiana Lottery Company

• Great Depression

• Convict Lease System

• Louisiana Cotton Centennial

Laws that restricted he freedom of African Americans and required separate-but-equal public facilities for whites and for blacks.

• Jim Crow Laws

• Emancipation Laws

• Freedom Amendments

• Equality Codes

A law that gave a person the right to vote if he could demonstrate that his father or grandfather had been a voter before 1867

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Black Codes

• Jim Crow Law

• Grandfather Clause

a tax that had to be paid before a person could vote

• Sales Tax

• Corporate Tax

• Poll Tax

• Income Tax

belief in the rights, wisdom, or virtues of the common people

• Progressive

• Populism

• Bourbon Democrat

• Green Party

believed government could and should be used to help address social problems like poverty, illiteracy, and improving the conditions for all workers.

• Populism

• Progressives

• Bourbon Democrats

• Socialists