Unit 3, Chapter 1 Test Review

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

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

In Source #1, 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.

In 1682, Robert de La Salle descended the Mississippi to its mouth and promptly claimed the entire region for Louis XIV calling it Louisiana. He had goals of building a French commercial and military empire stretching from the St. Lawrence Seaway to the Gulf of Mexico, and he had the endorsement of the French Crown for erecting forts in western New France and profiting from a monopoly in furs.

Why did La Salle mislead us about the location of the mouth of the Mississippi River?

• He wanted to make the area look more profitable because of the fur's and trade with Indigenous groups in the area.

• To make the area look more profitable to the King, in hopes of another trip.

• He did not intentionally misled anyone, he did not know how to get back to the mouth of the Mississippi River.

• Due to failing health, he was delirious