French Colonial Louisiana

Iberville called the new colony in Mobile, Alabama__________

• Fort Louis

• Fort Denis

• Fort Jacques

• Fort Martin

Who was appointed the new governor of Louisiana by King Louis XIV in 1710?

• Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac

• Louis Joliet

• Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville

• Jacques Cartier

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

Iberville and Bienville built this fort near Biloxi Bay

• Fort Biloxi

• Fort Toulouse

• Fort Maurepas

• Fort Orleans

Which treaty resulted in France ceding control of Louisiana to Spain in 1762?

• A) Treaty of Paris

• B) Treaty of Fontainebleau

• C) Treaty of Versailles

• D) Treaty of Utrecht

He was credited as being the founder of the first permanent French settlement in Louisiana

• Bienville

• La Salle

• Iberville

• de Soto

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

Who was Louis Jolliet's partner during his exploration journey?

• Jacques Marquette

• Christopher Columbus

• Marco Polo

• Ferdinand Magellan

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

What was the primary economic activity in French Colonial Louisiana?

• A) Fur trading

• B) Gold mining

• C) Cotton farming

• D) Shipbuilding