reaearch topics on either louisiana or the uninted states.(history)?
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Maybe the problems Louisiana has had with natural disasters\n\nor... the Louisiana purchase. \n\nor... the exploration of Louisiana by French --> Cajun
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agreed!\n\nhey nansimejia\n\nyou forget your own history : We bought it from your conquerors, \n\n\nIn 1762, France had ceded Louisiana to Spain, but by the secret Treaty of San Ildefonso (1800) the French had regained the area. Napoleon Bonaparte (the future Emperor Napoleon I) envisioned a great French empire in the New World, and he hoped to use the Mississippi Valley as a food and trade center to supply the island of Hispaniola, which was to be the heart of this empire. First, however, he had to restore French control of Hispaniola, where Haitian slaves under TOUSSAINT L'OUVERTURE had seized power (1801; see HAITI). In 1802 a large army sent by Napoleon under his brother-in-law, Charles Leclerc, arrived on the island to suppress the Haitian rebellion. Despite some military success, the French lost thousands of soldiers, mainly to yellow fever, and Napoleon soon realized that Hispaniola must be abandoned. Without that island he had little use for Louisiana. Facing renewed war with Great Britain, he could not spare troops to defend the territory; he needed funds, moreover, to support his military ventures in Europe. Accordingly, in April 1803 he offered to sell Louisiana to the United States.\nConcerned about French intentions, President Thomas Jefferson had already sent James Monroe and Robert R. Livingston to Paris to negotiate the purchase of a tract of land on the lower Mississippi or, at least, a guarantee of free navigation on the river. Surprised and delighted by the French offer of the whole territory, they immediately negotiated the treaty. \nJefferson was jubilant. At one stroke the United States would double its size, an enormous tract of land would be open to settlement, and the free navigation of the Mississippi would be assured. Although the Constitution did not specifically empower the federal government to acquire new territory by treaty, Jefferson concluded that the practical benefits to the nation far outweighed the possible violation of the Constitution. The Senate concurred with this decision and voted ratification on Oct. 20, 1803. The Spanish, who had never given up physical possession of Louisiana to the French, did so in a ceremony at New Orleans on Nov. 30, 1803. In a second ceremony, on Dec. 20, 1803, the French turned Louisiana over to the United States\nyour people capitulated. You lost a war, and with it, any claim to the territory you run around calling "Aztlan" today, all the while waving a Mexican flag.
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whats the subject? i could probly giv you some ideas, my dads a history nut! ^^
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LSU might be interesting. history is being made as the state deals with the aftermath of katrina.\n\nUT - San Antonio might also be interesting. nice, small city with riverwalk area.\n\nUA is also worth considering for friendly people and true deep south experience.
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http://www.house.gov/house/Educate.shtml \nalong with access to the Federalist Papers Declaration of Indepence and other American Historical documents
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Its where the states got to chose if they wanted to be a slave state or a free state. I'm studing the SAME THING!!! Good luck!! =)
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A Swamp.\nAlthough Spain was twice in control of the area.\nOriginally the first European explorers to visit Louisiana came in 1528. The Spanish expedition (led by Panfilo de Narváez) located the mouth of the Mississippi River. In 1541, Hernando de Soto's expedition crossed the region.Then Spanish interest in Louisiana lay dormant.\n\nThe French explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle named the region Louisiana to honor France's King Louis XIV in 1682.\n\nThe French colony of Louisiana originally claimed all the land on both sides of the Mississippi River and north to French territory in Canada. The following States were part of Louisiana: Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota.\n\nLouisiana became a colony of Spain after the Seven Years' War by the Treaty of Paris of 1763.\nIn 1800, France's Napoleon Bonaparte acquired Louisiana from Spain in the Treaty of San Ildefonso, an arrangement kept secret for some two years\n\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana\nhttp://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/ildefens.htm
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http://www.lcbp.org/ATLAS/HTML/so_historic.htm\n\nThis is a pretty good US map.
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I've provided links to a few sites that offer lots of information about Illinois. I think you'll find the last one particularly useful in answering your geography questions about the state.\n\nHope these help!
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Sounds like homework... \nProbably should do some of you own thinking here... but here are a few ideas to get started with...\n(a) What sort of state were the former Confiderate states in? Had they used their manpower and economic resources to better economies or to fight the war?  What was their infrastructure like? Were there roads, towns, etc. left after Sherman's March to the Sea?  \n(b) What was the South's economic system like? With slaves freed, how was the economy (which required lots of manual labor on large plantations) going to function?  How were the white and black citizens in the south going to live together / work together after one class of people were literally property?\n\n(2) You might find starting information on Johnson's reconstruction plans here:\n(This is wikipedia, so you need better sources, but it's a start)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconstruction
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i don´t know if this will help you, \n"The first measure addressed the cultural question with the creation of a governmental body and judicial system for Louisiana, based on American models and replacing the existing model (based on French and Spanish influences")
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You could just try looking the information up, instead of relying on the faulty memories here in Yahoo! Answers.  \n\nBut, just to try and help you out...New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Maine, Illinois, etc.  Pretty much every state North of the Mason Dixon Line were non-slave holding states.  Missouri was one that was in contention as it was North of the line, but when it achieved statehood, it was granted the right to be a slave state in 1851, if I remember my history correctly.
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The state was named after France's King Louis XIV\nWe are called Louisianians\nThree things mined here are coal, salt, and lignite.\nThree things made here are cotton products, sugarcane products, petroleum products\nThree things that bring visitors to the state are casinos, culture, and good food.
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By narrowing down what you want to talk about. There was a lot that happened in the 19th century, and a lot's going on right now. What in particular would you like to compare? Politics, business, fashion, science, religion? Just pick one of them, and be specific. Otherwise, you'll write a book!
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I think a great subject would be the history of the Interurban, the electric street cars that went through towns and from town to town. They were reliable, cheap, comfortable, and scenic. And they were all over the USA. Research is easy on the subject and subject matter usually contains many eyewitness accounts and photos. Hope this helps!
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slaves:\nDelaware, Georgia, Maryland, South Carolina, Virginia, north Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Louisiana Mississippi, Alabama\n\nfree:\nNew Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Massachusetts,\nNew Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont, Ohio, \nIndiana, Illinois
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Try this link\n\nhttp://www.coloradohistory.com/cametobe.asp