Ruby Bridges: Integration And Segregation In History
Zoning & Local Policy
During the American Revolutionary WarNew Orleans was an important port for smuggling aid to the American revolutionariesand transporting military equipment and supplies up the Mississippi River. Beginning in the s, Filipinos began to settle in and around New Orleans.
Brkdges: a French colony, Louisiana faced struggles with numerous Native American tribesone of which was the Natchez in southern Mississippi. Approximately French colonists were killed and the young colony was burnt to the ground. The Natchez pretended to surrender and actually worked for the French in the hunting game, but as soon as they were weaponized, they struck back and killed several men, resulting in the colonists fleeing downriver to New Orleans.
Redlining & Federal Policy
The fleeing colonists sought Segreagtion from what they feared might be a colony-wide Indian raid. The Natchez, however, did not press on after their surprise attack, leaving them vulnerable enough for King Louis XV's appointed governor Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville to reclaim the settlement. In the early s traders from the Thirteen Colonies crossed into the Appalachian Mountains. The Native American tribes would now operate dependent on which of various European colonists would most benefit them. Several of these tribes and especially the Chickasaw and Choctaw would trade goods and gifts for their loyalty.
Why Should the Federal Government Get Involved in Local Exclusionary Zoning?
In andthe Chickasaw would raid along the east bank of the Mississippi all the way south to Baton Rouge. These raids would Intrgration force residents of French Louisiana to take refuge in New Orleans proper. The colonists turned to African slaves to make their investments in Louisiana profitable. In the late s the transatlantic slave trade imported enslaved Africans into the colony. This led to the biggest shipment in where several trading ships appeared with slaves as cargo to the local residents in a one-year span.
The slave law formed in the s is known as the Code Noirwhich would bleed into the antebellum period of the American South as well. Louisiana slave culture had its own distinct Afro-Creole society that called on past cultures and the situation for slaves in the New World. Afro-Creole was present in religious beliefs and the Louisiana Creole dialect.
Exclusionary Zoning Reform in States and Cities
The religion most associated with this period for was called Voodoo. By the end of French colonization in Louisiana, New Orleans was recognized commercially in the Atlantic world.
Its inhabitants traded across the French commercial system. New Orleans was a hub for this trade both physically and culturally because it served as the exit point to the rest of the globe for the interior of the North American continent.]
I think it already was discussed.