| A | B |
|---|
| charter | permission to operate given to the La. Lottery Company |
| Bourbons | umcomplimentary term for the Redeemer-Democrate |
| cotton | main crop of the state in the late 1800s |
| convicts | leased to businesses by state to earn money |
| disfranchise | to take away one's right to vote |
| Jim Crow Laws | another name for laws separating the races |
| separate-but-equal | U.S. Supreme Court established this in Plessy v. Ferguson |
| Exodusters | name given to black farm workers who left the state for Kansas in the late 1800s |
| labor union | an organization to help workers get better wages |
| railroads | provided easy transportation for the lumber industry |
| Jennings | site of first succesful oil well in state |
| salt | mineral mined at Avery Island |
| jetties | James Eads plan to widen the mouth of the Mississippi River |
| progressives | reformers who believed that government could solve society's problems |
| James B. Aswell | the "father of modern education in LA. |
| James A. LeJeune | La. hero of WWI |
