Vocabulary
A plant from which blue dye could be obtained.
Indigo
Spanish Governor of the Natchez District
Manuel Gayoso
Ended the French and Indian War
Treaty of Paris 1763
In 1492, who discovered the New World?
Christopher Columbus
Where was the leading cotton producer?
Mississippi
Young women who were brought to the French colonies to marry single, Frenchmen.
Casquette Girls
Who died from a festering wound and was buried in the Mississippi River?
Hernando de Soto
Americans were given free navigation of MS River
Treaty of San Lorenzo
Who was the leading cotton producer?
Mississippi
During the American Revolution, what were many of the residents in Natchez? Loyalists or Patriots
Loyalists
The art and technique of making maps and charts.
Cartography
Who discovered the MS side of the River for France and tried to establish a fort but failed.
Sieur d' Iberville
Husband and wives could not be separated, child under 14 cannot be taken from mother, if freed by owners slaves became citizens
The Code Noir
Where was the first permanent settlement on the MS River established?
Natchez
Who was the Spanish governor of the Natchez District?
Manuel Grayoso de Lemos
The flowing together of two bodies of water.
Confluence
The first explorer to the Far east.
Marco Polo
What 3 European powers were competing for land in the New World at this time?
Spain, France and Great Britain
Who was assassinated by his crew because he sailed too far west?
La Salle
Fort Rosalie(Natchez) became part of British East, West, South, or North Florida.
West Florida
A force of citizen-soldiers.
Militia
Who tried to get the British to side with Americans or stay neutral, but failed?
James Willing
Temporarily prohibited unwanted migration west and it kept the Native Americans and White settlers from fighting over land
Proclamation of 1763
The Louisiana Province was divided into nine districts including Biloxi, Natchez, and ?
Yazoo
Where did the Spanish give up their land in 1795?
a. North of the 31 degree parallel
b. South of the 31 degree parallel
c. South of the 32 degree parallel
d. North of the 32 degree parallel
North of the 31 degree parallel