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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Grand Dérangement | 1755-1763 |
| New Orleans/Louisiana is ceded to Spain | 1763 |
| Louisiana Purchase | 1803 |
| Battle of New Orleans (part of US vs Britain War of 1812-1815) | January 8, 1815 |
| Dred Scott v. Standford (U.S. Supreme Court decision declaring that slaves and their descendants are not protected by the Constitution and can never be citizens: | 1857 |
| U.S. Civil War | 1861-1865 |
| Emancipation Proclamation | September 1862 |
| Congress guarantees rights of citizenship and equal protection under the law to all people born in the U.S., regardless of race (14th Amendment) | 1868 |
| Plessy V. Ferguson (U.S. Supreme Court decision enshrining the doctrine of "separate but equal" and upholding the constitutionality of state-sponsored racial segregation) | 1896 |
| Brown V. Board of Education (U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning Plessy. V. Ferguson) | 1954 |
| "The Campaign of 1814-1815" | Hippolyte Castra |
| "Désirée's Baby" | Kate Chopin |
| "The Mulatto" | Victor Séjour |
| "Linguistic Schizophrenia" | Jean Arceneaux |
| The Big Sea | Langston Hughes |
| "Wedding Day" | Gwendolyn Bennett |
| "Encounter on the Seine: Black Meets Brown" | James Baldwin |
| "Equal in Paris" | James Baldwin |
| The Stone Face | William Gardner Smith |