French Colonial Louisiana Flashcard

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Who claimed the shaded area on the map for France?

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La Salle

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

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Germany

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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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The new Code Noir articles are written.

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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 areas of North America did France colonize? Canada, Louisiana, and parts of the Caribbean, Alaska, Hawaii, and Texas, New England, New York, and Pennsylvania, Mexico, Florida, and California

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Canada, Louisiana, and parts of the Caribbean