1. Chapter 13 The Era of Huey Long To play the game, go to the next slide and click on a point value to go to a question. To go to final Wrap-Up click on Final Wrap-Up at the bottom of the main screen.

2. 1920’s Politics Long’s Early Years Long in the Senate Long’s Lasting Effect Vocabulary Long and Legislature

3. Team 1Team 2Team 3Team 4 Team 5 Wager board

4. What amendment to the U.S. Constitution made the manufacturing and sale of alcohol illegal in January 1920?

5. Eighteenth Amendment score board

6. What hampered Governor John Parker’s efforts to make improvements in Louisiana?

7. Louisiana’s 1913 Constitutional ban on borrowing money for projects score board

8. What did Governor Parker create that required companies to pay a percentage of the value of the natural resources they removed from the land?

9. severance tax score board

10. What natural disaster saw flooding spread more than 50 miles beyond the banks of the Mississippi and forced more than 275,000 people from their homes?

11. The Mississippi River Flood of 1927 scoreboard

12. What steps did the Citizens Flood Relief Committee take to keep New Orleans from flooding?

13. They dynamited the levees below New Orleans to ease pressure on the levees in the city score board

14. What was Huey Long’s first experience in state politics?

15. As a member of the Public Service Commission score board

16. By lowering rates on gas and electricity and lowering fares on railroads and streetcars, Long became known as a champion for whom?

17. common people score board

18. What were some promises Long made to secure his election as governor in 1928?

19. to provide free school books to the state’s children, to pave the city’s dirt streets, to pipe natural gas into the city score board

20. What was one of Long’s most popular programs funded through selling bonds?

21. constructing paved roads across the state score board

22. How did Long use patronage jobs to increase his power?

23. People were desperate for jobs and he had the ability to appoint more than 25,000 state positions, securing people who would support and back him and his decisions score board

24. How did Long ensure that legislators followed his orders and voted for laws that he wanted passed?

25. By taking away their committee assignments or by threatening to take away jobs from the family members of elected officials score board

26. What happened when Long’s opponents in the legislature initiated impeachment charges?

27. Bloody Monday – widespread fist fighting on the floor of the state House of Representatives score board

28. Long convinced fifteen senators to sign a declaration that they would never cast a guilty vote in his impeachment proceedings. This became known as what strategy?

29. The legislative round -robin score board

30. What university saw improvements in facilities and programs that were of special interest to Long?

31. Louisiana State University score board

32. Why do some critics refer to Long’s political career as a dictatorship?

33. Because he controlled virtually all decisions and actions of Louisiana state government score board

34. What was the reason Long refused to be sworn in as a U.S. Senator for nearly two years?

35. So he could control the election of his replacement as governor score board

36. What was the purpose of Long’s record-length filibusters on the floor of the Senate?

37. to block legislation he was opposed to score board

38. What was the political impact for Long when he supported the reelection of Senator Hattie Caraway?

39. It showed that he could influence elections beyond his home state score board

40. To appeal to the nation’s poor during the Great Depression, how did Long propose to redistribute wealth?

41. Through higher taxes on the nation’s wealthiest citizens score board

42. What projects did Long oversee during O.K. Allen’s term as Louisiana’s governor?

43. New roads, the state’s first bridge across the Mississippi River, and a new State Capitol building score board

44. Who was charged and found guilty of Long’s assassination?

45. Carl Austin Weiss score board

46. What is one theory that has risen as new evidence cast doubts on Weiss’s guilt?

47. That Long’s bodyguards opened fire as Weiss approached the senator and they shot Long accidentally score board

48. Who was appointed to Long’s Senate seat immediately following his death?

49. His widow, Rose Long score board

50. What qualified Richard Leche to be backed by Long’s most powerful supporters as the candidate for governor after Allen’s death?

51. He was a loyal Long supporter whom they thought could be controlled score board

52. Why was it difficult for federal investigators to prove Long’s corruption while he was alive?

53. Because Long had total control of state government and maintained an atmosphere of intimidation… people were too scared to talk score board

54. What term means forbidding the making or selling of alcoholic beverages?

55. Prohibition score board

56. What term describes a certificate promising payment of money by a certain date, which is issued by a government as evidence of debt?

57. bond score board

58. What system required state employees to contribute 10% of their salary to support Long’s political organization?

59. Deduct Box score board

60. What is the meaning of “fait accompli?”

61. Something that has been done and cannot be changed score board

62. What term means “different from what is usually done or accepted?”

63. Unorthodox score board

64. Make your wager on the scoreboard scoreFinal Question

65. What act by Governor Long was considered a “fait accompli”?

66. He had the governor’s mansion torn down so that the legislature had no choice but approve a new one be built score board