CORRECTION "A brief history of tourism"

 

QUESTIONS:

a)    What sort of document is it?

 It’s an extract from an article (from a website)

b)    What is the main idea?

 It’s about the origins of tourism in New Orleans.

c)     Guess the meaning of ( no dictionary):

-        entice (l.4)  attract

-        rely on (l.6) « compter sur »

-        blur (l. 13) “ brouiller”

d)    What is the Krewe of Rex? ( use your own words).

It is the first Mardi Gras festival.

e)    Use the web to answer the following questions:

1.When did the Civil War take place? Why?

 

The Civil War (1860- 1865) opposed the South/ the SOUTHERN states which had decided to secede and the North where the president (called Lincoln) wanted to abolish slavery.

The North won the war but Lincoln was killed/ murdered.

 

 

2.What were the Jim Crow Laws?

 

The Emancipation Proclamation Act was signed in 1863; slavery was officially abolished in 1865. But in the South a new system was born: Jim Crow was the name given to the segregation laws: black and white people could not share the same public places…

 

So N.O leaders pretended that their city was a lovely place as African Americans and their difficulties were hidden. N.O just looked like a nice “romantic city”…

 

 

f) Use  your own words to sum up the different reasons why New Orleans became attractive.

To put it in a nutshell/ TO sum up in a word

new transports, peace, hotels, guidebooks; an exhibition, the illusion of a great romantic city, different forms of architecture, money from the North… contributed to the success of tourism.