Chapter 3 Study Guide

What is silk?

• a fabric made out of soybeans

• a fabric made out of cotton

• a fabric made out of an insect

• a fabric made out of corn

When the french landed in Mississippi in 1699, what was the location of that landing?

• Jackson

• Ship Island

• Vicksburg

• Natchez

In the chapter preview, who was discussed as the leading explorer to the Far East?

• Marco Polo

• Christopher

• De Soto

• LaSalle

What attracted English settlers to the Spanish Natchez District?

• Liberal land grants

• no slavery allowed

• low tariffs

• safety from the Indians

A large amount of the settlers in the Natchez District supported which side during the American Revolution

• Rebels

• British

• Indians

• Slaves

As Marquette and Joliet discovered the lower Louisiana, they also discovered two important rivers. They are the following:

• Missouri and Tombigbee

• Arkansas and Colorado

• Mississippi and Arkansas

• Mississippi and Ohio

the art of making maps and charts

• cartography

• treaty of paris of 1763

• code noir

discovered the Mississippi River

• Hernando de Soto

• colonies

• code noir

• New Orleans

area of land politically controlled by a distant country

• colonies

• code noir

• cartography

• Bienville

city established in 1718

• New Orleans

• expedition

• code noir

• Proclamation of 1763