French LA Vocabulary

A set of laws established by Bienville in 1724 that regulated the behavior of slaves and laid out rules for their masters.

• Casket Girls

• Calumet

• Code Noir

• Concessions

Young, marriageable girls sent from France with a small trunk (casket) filled with clothing and goods needed to establish a household.

• Casket Girls

• Calumet

• Code Noir

• Concessions

A grant of land given by the French proprietary government to a concessionaire-a person who agreed to clear land for the cultivation of food and cash crops.

• Casket Girls

• Calumet

• Code Noir

• Concessions

A ceremonial pipe used by Native Americans.

• Casket Girls

• Calumet

• Code Noir

• Concessions

The officer in command of the French Louisiana colony.

• Commissary-commissioner

• Commandant

The business manager of the French Louisiana colony.

• Commissary-commissioner

• Commandant

An early form of the modern corporation in which many people invested by buying stock. Ex. Similar to the modern stock market.

• Indigo

• Joint-Stock Company

• Mississippi Bubble

• Mouth

• Proprietorship

The expansion, then collapse, of the Company of the Indies, a French company that invested in the Louisiana colony. Ex. Similar to a stock market crash.

• Indigo

• Joint-Stock Company

• Mississippi Bubble

• Mouth

• Proprietorship

A plant that is used to make blue dye.

• Indigo

• Joint-Stock Company

• Mississippi Bubble

• Mouth

• Proprietorship

The system of letting an individual businessman take control of a colony in the hopes that he could make it profitable. More modernly used to describe a person who owns a business.

• Indigo

• Joint-Stock Company

• Mississippi Bubble

• Mouth

• Proprietorship