8th Grade Ch.6 Sect.1

C h. 6 Sect.1 Proprietorship pt1

Multiple Choice

What is a proprietorship?

• a contract giving control of a business to one person

• a law that gives one company complete control over an area of sales

• the transfer of power in an area from one group of people to another

• a contract forcing a government to place priority on an area or topic

Multiple Select

What were the requirements of a proprietor?

• Send Settlers

• Send Supplies

• Establish French Law

• Grow tabacco

Match

Match the following

• First Proprietor

• First governor

• Governor sent by first proprietor

• "Father of Louisiana"

Crozat

Bienville

Cadillac

Iberville

• Crozat

• Bienville

• Cadillac

• Iberville

Multiple Select

Which did the Superior Council establish?

• Governing body of LA

• Judicial system

• Business Manager

• Bishop

• New King of Louisiana

Multiple Select

What fort did St. Denis set up and what city would it become?

• Fort St. Jean Baptiste

• Natchitoches

• Fort Louis

• Shreveport

Section 2:
Second Proprietor

Match

Match the following Proprietorships

• First Proprietor

• Second Proprietor

• Not a Proprietor

Antoine Crozat

John Law

Bienville

• Antoine Crozat

• John Law

• Bienville

Royal Colony Again

Ch. 6 Sect. 3

Bienville Returns

●In 1732 Louisiana becomes a royal colony.

●Bienville was appointed governor again.

○People were glad to see him return because he had experience with Natives

●Challenges:

○Bienville need to make sure agriculture became successful

○Lack of livestock (horses, cows, pigs, oxen)

○Lack of money

○Keeping peace with Natives

●Bienville struggled greatly

Relations with Natives

●Choctaw prefer the French over the British until Gov. Perier

●The Chickasaw were allies with the British and enemies of the French and Choctaw

War with the Chickasaw

●When Bienville became gov. Again he was told to either defeat the Chickasaw or
sign a peace treaty with them

●Chickasaw were intervening in communication and trade between IL and LA

○Where wheat was coming from

●Chickasaw had taken in refuge Natchez and Bienville demanded they be handed
over

●Chickasaw refused and war broke out

●British supplied Chickasaw with weapons

●French paid the Choctaw for Chickasaw scalps

●Bienville received reinforcements from French troops in IL

●After several defeats Bienville believes the war to be a failure and retires in 1742

●War efforts faded away after his retirement

New Governor

●In 1742 Pierre Francois de Rigaud Marquis de Vandreuil becomes gov.

●Vandreuil was using LA as a stepping stone to become gov. Of Canada

●Able to halt Indian raids and makes peace with Natives

●The colony started to grow

●Vandreuil est. formal ceremonies and parties that copied life back in France

○He threw the 1st Mardi Gras Ball

●Adopted the title “Grand Marquis”

●1752 becomes gov. Of Canada and leaves LA

New Governor

● Louis Billouart, Chevalier de Kerlerec is the last French governor

during the French royal colonial period.

● He was appointed for his military experience
●Struggled with officials and this hindered his ability to strengthen LA defenses

○ Tensions rise between France and England

● He requested permission to leave but he remained gov. Until 1762

Women in the Colony

●The people:
○Women were scarce in the colony.

○In 1728 a group of young girls had arrived in LA from France
■Casket Girls: young women who came to LA in 1728 to become wives of the
settlers
●Casket because that is the small handbag they brought all of their
belonging in when coming to the colony

■Rumors surrounding the girls
●They were vampires

●They were prostitutes

●Homeless

■Truth: They were eligible women with good reputations, young, and Catholic

■They were taken in by the Ursuline Nuns

Section 3:
French and Indian War

Causes of the War

• In early colonial America, the British, and French battled for control of a territory known as the Ohio River Valley

Who were fighting?

• The French and Indian War

• ​It is also as the Seven Years War

• Britsh vs French and Native Tribes

  • While the British had Native allies more aligned with the French

Key Points

• Part of the first Global War (Seven Years War)

• The British were able to defeat the French

• France agreed to give up all its land to the British at the end of the war

​Treaty of Fontainebleau 1762

• Secret treaty signed between France and Spain.

  • Rulers of France and Spain were cousins

• Gave Louisiana to Spain to keep the LA territory away from Great Britain

• LA wasn't made aware of the change in ownership until after the war