New Orleans’ history, culture, and geography

The city of New Orleans was founded in 1718 by the Sier de bienvikke, a French Canadian nobleman believed that a port should be built. New Orleans unique connection with a bay that made it perfect for trade across the US, Bienville started to build roads in his new city. In 1722 great hurricanes hit New Orleans that drowned new build city. The first generation ignored causing them to keep building but more levees between the town and the river. Through the 1800’s to 1927 some levees did not function, hurricanes killed a lot of people, floods etc..  New Orleans just kept rebuilding because it was Major commodity crops of sugar and cotton. Slave labor on large plantations outside the city.New Orleans from the 1888  The Haitian Revolution of 1804 established the second republic in the Western Hemisphere and the first led by blacks. Haitian refugees, both white and free people of color, arrived in New Orleans, often bringing slaves with them. While officials wanted to keep out more free black men, French Creoles wanted to increase the French-speaking population.

The population of the city doubled in the 1830s and by 1840, New Orleans had become the wealthiest and third-most populous city in the nation. New Orleans was the birth of Jazz music. The style combined earlier brass band marches with French Quadrilles. the "New Orleans Traditional" revival movement began in 1942 and was extended by the French Quarter during the 1960s.

In the 1800’s depression hit New Orleans’s there was only room for project building. By the 1940s things started to pick up again but they did not have the skill to compete against the industrial muscle. New Orleans found it self-competing with technology of shipping, which was threating to the economical foundation and its old city. They had to face reality of its sudden suburban explosion that carried segregation to separate blacks from the white towns. The revolution ports allowed New Orleans to make some money, and gained most its revenue from the transporting goods. On pg71 of article “the making of an urban landscape” the say “new Orleans has a relatively small captive market of shippers who must use the ports facilities”. Technology caught up to them the 1960’s because of interstate highways.

In the 1970’s New Orleans had a racial malady. They lived poor and with low education, and high crime. While the whites increased economically, blacks were isolated and abused from their rights. Ghettos were built to segregate the blacks from the whites with the city. On PG 99 The Making of an Urban Landscape.  It says “During the 1960s whites abandoned public schools because black population has increasing”.  New Orleans public schools were abandoned because Blacks outnumbered whites in schools casing white children to go to private schools.