Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The 1803 State of the Union address was delivered by the third president of the United States Thomas Jefferson to the 8th United States Congress on October 17, 1803. This speech centered around the Louisiana Purchase and the expansion of the United States, along with efforts to maintain peace with Native American tribes and establish neutral foreign relations amidst ongoing European conflicts.
Louisiana's flag during the American Civil War, in 1861. With its plantation economy, Louisiana was a state that generated wealth from the labor of and trade in enslaved Africans. It also had one of the largest free black populations in the United States, totaling 18,647 people in 1860.
Slaves and Freedmen in Civil War Louisiana (1976) Sledge, Christopher L. "The Union's Naval War in Louisiana, 1861–1863" (Army Command and General Staff College, 2006) online; Winters, John D. The Civil War in Louisiana. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1963. ISBN 0-8071-0834-0. Wooster, Ralph. "The Louisiana Secession Convention."
The Civil War came after years of struggle over the issue of slavery. Louisiana's political leaders hoped the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850 would protect slavery and preserve the Union. But the state's planters saw the increasing pressure from abolitionists as an economic threat.
The Louisiana Constitution of 1864 abolished slavery throughout the state, but was effective only in the thirteen Louisiana parishes under Union control during the war. Voting rights to black men who fought for the Union , owned property, or were literate, were allowed to be authorized (but not given) by the state legislature.
The U.S. Constitution spells it out clearly in Article II, Section 3: The president “shall from time to time give to the Congress information of the state of the union, and recommend to their ...
Prominent Jews in Louisiana's political leadership have included Whig (later Democrat) Judah P. Benjamin, who represented Louisiana in the U.S. Senate before the American Civil War and then became the Confederate secretary of state; Democrat-turned-Republican Michael Hahn who was elected as governor, serving 1864–1865 when Louisiana was ...
Bettie Mae Fikes, a civil rights advocate who marched in Selma, Ala., on Bloody Sunday in 1965, will be a guest of the First Lady; the State of the Union address coincides with the 59th ...