French Colonial Louisiana Flashcard

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What accomplishment is Bienville best known for? Options: Writing the Code Noir, Signing the Treaty of Fontainebleau, Instituting Louisiana’s civil law system, Founding settlements such as Mobile and New Orleans

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Founding settlements such as Mobile and New Orleans

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According to this plan, New Orleans was to be intentionally built near which geographic feature?

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a river

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Which phrase best describes a Creole person?

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a person born in the Louisiana colony

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What event belongs at point C on the timeline? Options: The new Code Noir articles are written. Antoine Crozat brings new settlers to colonial Louisiana. Spain enters the Revolutionary War on the American side. De Soto and his fellow explorers reach the Mississippi River.

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Antoine Crozat brings new settlers to colonial Louisiana.

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Based on the Code Noir, what could a child born to a free Black woman married to an enslaved man do?

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own property

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What was Hernando de Soto’s expedition looking for when it first reached what would later become the Louisiana colony?

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gold

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How did Ulloa make himself very unpopular with the people of the Louisiana colony?

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He restricted trade.

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John Law granted land in Louisiana to many people from which country?

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Germany

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What does this image show about New Orleans?

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why it is called the Crescent City

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Who founded the first French Louisiana colony?

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Pierre d'Iberville