Do you remember the vocabulary we worked on when we watched the Louisiana video?

Here are some of the words:  golly, plague, gumbo, supper, fairly, marshy, chipmunk, count on, propel, vestige, blessing, curse

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1. Many ethnic groups make up Louisiana; they're like a bowl of gumbo where each ingredient keeps its essence but adds to the tastiness of the whole dish.
   
   
2. Louisiana's strategic position at the mouth of the Mississippi is both a blessing and a curse.
   
   
3. During the Revolutionary War, the British troops were quickly defeated; they hadn't counted on on Andrew Jackson and his strategic use of the Mississippi River.
   
   
4. Andrew Jackson's victory propelled him to the presidency in 1829.  The Battle of New Orleans was celebrated nationally until the Civil War, in which Louisiana was on the wrong side.
   
   
5. Floods and hurricanes have plagues Louisiana. In 1927, the Mississippi swelled to over 60 miles in some spots and nearly 700,000 people were displaced by the disaster.  Hurricane Katrina, in 2005, is now considered to be the most devastating and costly natural disaster in U.S. history.
   
   
6. Golly! Look at that baby's fat cheeks. She looks like a chipmunk.
   
   
7. Louisiana calls its subdivisions  parishes, a vestige of the old Catholic parishes that existed during French and Spanish rule.
   
   
8. About 40% of all the coastal wetlands in the US are found in Louisiana, but about 30 square miles of these marshy expanses are being lost to coastal erosion every year.
   
   
9. How about having fried crab for supper?