Chapter 1 French Louisiana Notes Practice

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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 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 settlers to colonial Louisiana

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What year was New Orleans founded according to the timeline?

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1718

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What set rules for the treatment of enslaved people in French Louisiana?

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The Code Noir

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According to the Code Noir, what happens to children if the father is free and the mother is a slave?

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The children are slaves.

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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