European Explorers

Who founded the first permanent settlement in Mississippi, Fort de Maurepas?

• Hernando De Soto

• Sieur de La Salle

• Pierre d'lberville

Who built a trading post on the banks of the Pearl River?

• Louis Le Fleur

• Jean Baptiste Bienville

• Hernando de Soto

Who traveled to Mississippi via the MS River and claimed the northern section of Mississippi for France?

• Sieur de La Salle

• Pierre d'lberville

• Hernando de Soto

Who was the first European to set foot in present-day Mississippi?

• Jean-Baptiste Bienville

• Hernando de Soto

• Louis Le Fleur

Who built two forts for France: Fort Rosalie and Fort St. Pierre?

• Hernando de Soto

• Sieur de La Salle

• Jean-Baptiste Bienville

The ________________ system between Europeans and Native Americans is known as the Columbian Exchange.

• trade

• trail

• computer

The forced removal of Native Americans became known as the Trail of __________________________.

• Crumbs

• Tears

• Mississippi

Europeans felt compelled to convert native inhabitants to _________________________.

• Christianity

• Europeans

• exercise

European expansion included the acquisition of lands and ______________________.

• televisions

• ships

• resources

Conflicts between Europeans and Native Americans lasted for over __________ years.

• 1000

• 100

• 10000