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Unit 3, Chapter 1 Test Review

Total questions: 23

Worksheet time: 12mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who claimed the shaded area on the map for France? 

a)

Crozat

b)

La Salle

c)

Bienville

d)

Jolliet and Marquette

2.

What accomplishment is Bienville best known for?

a)

writing the Code Noir

b)

signing the Treaty of Fontainebleau

c)

instituting Louisiana’s civil law system

d)

founding settlements such as Mobile and New Orleans

3.

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

a)

a river

b)

a forest

c)

a plateau

d)

a mountain

4.


Under the Code Noir, what rights did les gens de couleur libres have? Select the two correct answers.

a)

voting rights

b)

marriage rights

c)

property ownership rights

d)

equal education opportunities

5.

Which phrase best describes a Creole person?

a)

a person of Spanish descent

b)

a person born in the Louisiana colony

c)

a person born in Europe but living in Louisiana

d)

a child born to one enslaved person and one free person

6.

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

a)

Spain 

b)

England

c)

Scotland

d)

Germany

7.

What does this image show about New Orleans?

a)

the effects of the Code Noir

b)

why it is called the Crescent City

c)

the effects of the fires in New Orleans

d)

why it implemented a system of civil law

8.


Which countries had control of Louisiana at some point during the Seven Years’ War? Select the two correct answers.

a)

Spain

b)

France

c)

Germany

d)

Great Britain

9.

In Source #1, What event belongs at point C on the timeline? 

a)

The new Code Noir articles are written.

b)

Antoine Crozat brings new settlers to colonial Louisiana.

c)

Spain enters the Revolutionary War on the American side.

d)


De Soto and his fellow explorers reach the Mississippi River.

10.

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?

a)

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

b)

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

c)

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

d)

Due to failing health, he was delirious

11.

"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; 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, 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? 

a)

own property 

b)

vote in the colony

c)

pass property to their father

d)

inherit property from their father

12.

The Mississippi River would have a tremendous effect on future settlements in North America. During French rule, it became an important route for commerce between settlements along the Gulf of Mexico and in Canada. But this mighty river was known to the Native Americans for centuries before Europeans came upon it.  Define commerce

a)

the buying and selling of goods and services; trade

b)

money that is spent in order to make a profit

c)

a written or spoken agreement, usually about

business

13.

a written or spoken agreement, usually about

business

a)

cede

b)

smuggle

c)


contract

d)

manumission

14.

monopoly

a)

a written or spoken agreement, usually about business

b)

the complete ownership or control of a resource or industry

c)

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

d)

release from enslavement

15.

regent

a)

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

b)

the arrival of a large number of people

c)

release from enslavement

d)

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

16.

manumission

a)

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

b)

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

c)

release from enslavement

d)

the arrival of a large number of people

17.

influx

a)

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

b)

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

c)

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

d)

the arrival of a large number of people

18.

civil law

a)

to grant or transfer

b)

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

c)

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

19.

common law

a)

release from enslavement

b)

to grant or transfer

c)

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

d)

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

20.

asset

a)

to discuss the terms of an agreement

b)

to grant or transfer

c)

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

21.

cede

a)

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

b)

to grant or transfer

c)

to discuss the terms of an agreement

22.

negotiate

a)

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

b)

to grant or transfer

c)

to discuss the terms of an agreement

23.

Will you pass Coach Southwell's test on Chapter 1 of Unit 3?

a)

Yep! This is easy!

b)

FAILURE IS NOT AN OPTION

c)

We have a test?!

d)

Who's Coach Southwell?

e)

Huh?