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Chapter 13The Era of Huey
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1920’sPolitics
Long’s EarlyYears
Long in the Senate
Long’sLastingEffect
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What amendment to the U.S. Constitution made the manufacturing and sale of alcohol illegal in January
1920?
Eighteenth Amendment
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What hampered Governor John Parker’s efforts to make improvements in
Louisiana?
Louisiana’s 1913 Constitutional ban
on borrowing money for projects
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What did Governor Parker create that required companies to pay a
percentage of the value of the natural resources they
removed from the land?
severance tax
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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?
The Mississippi River Flood of 1927
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What steps did the Citizens Flood Relief Committee take to keep New Orleans from
flooding?
They dynamited the levees below New Orleans to ease
pressure on the levees in the city
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What was Huey Long’s
first experience in state politics?
As a member of the Public Service Commission
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By lowering rates on gas and electricity and
lowering fares on railroads and streetcars, Long became known as a champion for whom?
common people
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What were some promises Long made to secure his
election as governor in 1928?
to provide free school books to the state’s
children, to pave the city’s dirt streets, to pipe natural
gas into the city
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What was one of Long’s most popular programs funded through selling
bonds?
constructing paved roads across the
state
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How did Long use patronage jobs to
increase his power?
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
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How did Long ensure that legislators followed his
orders and voted for laws that he wanted passed?
By taking away their committee assignments
or by threatening to take away jobs from the
family members of elected officials
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What happened when Long’s opponents in
the legislature initiated impeachment
charges?
Bloody Monday – widespread fist fighting on the floor of the state
House of Representatives
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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?
The legislative round -robin
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What university saw improvements in facilities and programs that were
of special interest to Long?
Louisiana State University
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Why do some critics refer to Long’s
political career as a dictatorship?
Because he controlled virtually all decisions
and actions of Louisiana state
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What was the reason Long refused to be sworn in as a U.S. Senator for
nearly two years?
So he could control the election of his
replacement as governor
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What was the purpose of Long’s record-length
filibusters on the floor of the Senate?
to block legislation he
was opposed to
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What was the political impact
for Long when he
supported the reelection of Senator Hattie
Caraway?
It showed that he could influence
elections beyond his home state
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To appeal to the nation’s poor during the Great
Depression, how did Long propose to redistribute
wealth?
Through higher taxes on the
nation’s wealthiest citizens
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What projects did Long oversee during O.K.
Allen’s term as Louisiana’s governor?
New roads, the state’s first bridge across the Mississippi River, and a new State Capitol
building
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Who was charged and found guilty of Long’s
assassination?
Carl Austin Weiss
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What is one theory that has risen as new
evidence cast doubts on Weiss’s guilt?
That Long’s bodyguards opened fire as Weiss
approached the senator and they shot Long
accidentally
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Who was appointed to Long’s Senate seat
immediately following his death?
His widow, Rose Long
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What qualified Richard Leche to be backed by Long’s most powerful supporters as the
candidate for governor after Allen’s death?
He was a loyal Long supporter whom they
thought could be controlled
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Why was it difficult for federal investigators to prove Long’s corruption
while he was alive?
Because Long had total control of state government and maintained an atmosphere of
intimidation… people were too scared to talk scor
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What term means forbidding the making or selling of alcoholic
beverages?
Prohibition
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What term describes a certificate promising payment
of money by a certain date, which is issued by a
government as evidence of debt?
bond
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What system required state employees to contribute 10% of their salary to
support Long’s political organization?
Deduct Box
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What is the meaning of “fait accompli?”
Something that has been done and cannot be
changed
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What term means “different from what is
usually done or accepted?”
Unorthodox
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Final Question
What act by Governor Long was considered a
“fait accompli”?
He had the governor’s mansion torn down so that
the legislature had no choice but approve a new
one be built
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