Chapter 1 French Louisiana Notes Practice

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? Select the two correct answers.

• 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 event belongs at point C on the timeline?

• The new Code Noir articles are written.

• Antoine Crozat brings settlers to colonial Louisiana

• Spain enters the Revolutionary War on the American side.

• De Soto and his fellow explorers reach the Mississippi River.

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 year was New Orleans founded according to the timeline?

• 1682

• 1718

• 1724

• 1762

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