The buying and selling of goods and services; trade

money that is spent in order to make a profit

French explorer who lead a team down the Mississippi River all the way to the mouth of the river claiming it for Louis XIV of France?

a written or spoken agreement, usually about business

Complete ownership or control of rescources and industry

Credited for being the founder of the first permanent French settlement in Louisiana?

Created a plan in 1699 to establish a permanet settlement that woudl give the French an advantage over the English and Spanish?

Newly appointed new governor of Louisiana by KIng Louis XIV in 1710

When someone puts money in a business in the hopes of financial return?

Wealthy French businessman who organized Louisiana's govenrment and control of agriculture and manufactorin. He also created a court system called the Superior Council.

French Canadian trader whom established Fort St. Jean Baptiste and the town of Natchitoches in present -day NW Louisiana?

French Duke of New Orleans who served as the regent of France?

A person who governs a kingdom when the monarch is unable to?

also called the Black Code but was a set of laws to govern the lives of free and enslaved Blacks in French Louisiana

The French term les gens de couleur libres means?

Release from enslavement means?

First generation of both French and Spanish colonial Louisiana?

The arrival of a large number of people?

Scottish investment banker whose company granted land to settler's from German and neighboring countries in an attempt to populate the oclony and make it a success?

Led a group to settle on the coast of Mississippi about 20 miles from New Orleans that was good for farming and supplied much needed resource and food to New Orleans?

a system of law in which codes and statues carry greater weight than prior court decisions?

A system of law in which prior court descisions carry greater weight thatn codes and statues?

something that is owned by a person, company, or country

Discuss terms of agreement

To grant or transfer

Signed in 1763 and it officially ended the 7 Year's War giving Louisiana to Spain.