Crook's French Louisiana Quiz

Who founded the first French Louisiana colony?

• Jacques Cartier

• Samuel de Champlain

• Pierre d'Iberville

• Louis Joliet

The Louisiana Colony was purchased as an_______

• gift from the French King

• trade agreement

• investment

• military conquest

The first European Louisiana Colony belonged to?

• Spain

• England

• France

• Portugal

What the main cause of conflict with the Indigenous Nations?

• Religious differences

• Trade disputes

• Stealing land

• Cultural misunderstandings

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

• The Code Noir

• The Magna Carta

• The Emancipation Proclamation

• The Declaration of Independence

Who moved Louisiana's capital to New Orleans?

• Bienville

• La Salle

• Cartier

• Champlain

French Louisiana was not profited, so it bounced between ___________ which means businesses people purchased the colony and ran it like a business.

• Natchez Revolt

• Iberville

• Investments

• Proprietorships

What is it called when enslaved people buy their own freedom?

• Emancipation

• Abolition

• Manumission

• Enfranchisement

Enslaved Africans were brought from the Senegambia region because the ​ (a)   was very similar to Louisiana.

• geography
• culture
• festivals
• resistance

Choose two answers: The French had a difficult time starting their colony because...

• there were too few women there

• they ran out of natural resources, such as wood

• the Spanish had already claimed the region

• the climate was too hot