WorksheetsFrench Colonial Louisiana
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 15mins
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 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
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
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
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
He was credited as being the founder of the first permanent French settlement in Louisiana
Bienville
La Salle
Iberville
de Soto
Iberville and Bienville built this fort near Biloxi Bay
Fort Biloxi
Fort Toulouse
Fort Maurepas
Fort Orleans
Though not in Louisiana, what place was once the capital of French Louisiana?
New Orleans, Louisiana
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Savannah, Georgia
Mobile, Alabama
Iberville called the new colony in Mobile, Alabama__________
Fort Louis
Fort Denis
Fort Jacques
Fort Martin
What river did Jolliet explore during his expedition?
Mississippi River
Amazon River
Nile River
Yangtze River
Which Native American cultures were present in Louisiana before European explorers arrived?
Caddo, Plaquemine, and Mississippian
Iroquois, Apache, and Sioux
Cherokee, Navajo, and Hopi
Inuit, Aleut, and Tlingit
Who was Louis Jolliet's partner during his exploration journey?
Jacques Marquette
Christopher Columbus
Marco Polo
Ferdinand Magellan
What was the primary economic activity in French Colonial Louisiana?
A) Fur trading
B) Gold mining
C) Cotton farming
D) Shipbuilding
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
Who was the French explorer credited with claiming the Louisiana territory for France in 1682?
A) Jacques Cartier
B) Samuel de Champlain
C) René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle
D) Louis Jolliet
