The document discusses the struggle for political power between Americans and Creoles in Louisiana and the state's attempts to move the capital from New Orleans. It describes how three options to relocate the capital failed, with the legislature only successfully moving to Baton Rouge in 1849. It also outlines the rise of Jacksonian democracy supported by American newcomers and contrasts it with the party backed by Creoles and sugar planters led by Henry Clay.

1. Chapter 9

2. • The Americans and the
Creoles always
struggled for political
power in the state
• American politicians
did not want New
Orleans to be the state
capital, since it was the
center of Creole power

3. • OPTION 1 – WEST FLORIDA
REGION
•FAILED – Creole legislators would
not vote to move to this area since it
was inhabited mostly by American
settlers

4. • OPTION 2 – DONALDSONVILLE
•FAILED – The legislature moved to
Donaldsonville in 1830, but it was
too small and they moved the state
capital back to New Orleans after
one year

5. • OPTION 3 – BATON ROUGE
•SUCCESS – The legislature moved to
Baton Rouge in 1849

7. • Led by Andrew
Jackson
• Represented the
common man
• Wanted to extend
voting rights
• Supported by
American newcomers

8. • National leader –
Henry Clay
• State Leader –
Alexander Porter
• Wanted tariffs
• Supported by
Creoles and sugar
planters

9. •Opposed to immigrants and
catholics

10. •1st (1812) – limited voting
rights and representation
•(1845) – House representation
based on total population,
including slaves; senate
representation based on voting
population

11. Outside
New
Orleans
Outside
New
Orleans
New
Orleans
New
Orleans

12. In antebellum times,
New Orleans was the 4th
largest port in THE
WORLD

13. • Goods sent or sold to another
country
• Goods from Louisiana plantations
were to New Orleans to be shipped

14. • A commercial agent
• Represents planters in the sale of
crops and provided the planters with
goods/supplies, if necessary

15. • Cotton Gin –
invented by Eli
Whitney
• Sugar vacuum
pan
evaporator –
invented by
Norbert
Rillieux (a free
man of color)

16. • Transportation upgrades to roads,
bridges, canal, railroads, and
other needs

17. • Cholera killed over 6,000 people in
Louisiana
• Cholera and yellow fever were very bad
diseases during antebellum times