French Colonial Louisiana - 6th Grade

Who claimed the shaded area on the map for France?

• Crozat

• La Salle

• Bienville

• Jolliet and Marquette

What accomplishment is Bienville best known for?

• writing the Code Noir

• signing the Treaty of Fontainebleau

• instituting Louisiana’s civil law system

• founding settlements such as Mobile and New Orleans

According to this plan, New Orleans was to be intentionally built near which geographic feature?

• a river

• a forest

• a plateau

• a mountain

Under the Code Noir, what rights did les gens de couleur libres have?

• voting rights

• marriage rights

• property ownership rights

• equal education opportunities

• the right to hold political office

Which phrase best describes a Creole person?

• a person of Spanish descent

• a person born in the Louisiana colony

• a person born in Europe but living in Louisiana

• a child born to one enslaved person and one free person

John Law granted land in Louisiana to many people from which country?

• Spain

• England

• Scotland

• Germany

What does this image show about New Orleans?

• the effects of the Code Noir

• why it is called the Crescent City

• the effects of the fires in New Orleans

• why it implemented a system of civil law

Which countries had control of Louisiana at some point during the Seven Years’ War?

Select the two correct answers

• Spain

• France

• Germany

• Great Britain

• The United states

What event belongs at point C on the timeline?

• The new Code Noir articles are written.

• Antoine Crozat brings new settlers to colonial Louisiana.

• Spain enters the Revolutionary War on the American side

• De Soto and his fellow explorers reach the Mississippi River

X. If the husband be a slave, and the wife a free woman, it is our will that their children . . . shall share the condition of their mother, and be as free as she, notwithstanding the servitude of their father; and if the father be free and the mother a slave, the children shall all be slaves. . . . XXII. We declare that slaves can have no right to any kind of property, and that all that they acquire, either by their own industry or by the liberality of others, or by any other means or title whatever, shall be the full property of their masters. . . . Based on the Code Noir, what could a child born to a free Black woman married to an enslaved man do?

• own property

• vote in the colony

• pass property to their father

• inherit their father’s property