CHAPTER 6 French Louisiana VOCAB

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French Canadian colonial in New France; early governor of French Louisiana; appointed during 1701-1743

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Jean-Baptiste le Moyne, Sieue de Bienville

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early form of the modern corporation in which many people invested by buying stock

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joint-stock company

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a ceremonial pipe

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calumet

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a plant that is used to make blue dye

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indigo

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the system of letting an individual businessman take control of the colony in the hopes that he could make it profitable

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proprietorship

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business manager

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commissary-commissioner

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officer in command

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commandant

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place where a stream enters a larger body of water

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mouth

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unmarried girls that came from France to find husbands in Louisiana

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casket girls

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architect of the plan to consolidate French colonial trading companies, including those in Louisiana into single monopoly, the Company of the Indies

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John Law