Colonial Founders & Leaders
This person claimed Louisiana for France in 1682.
Who is Robert La Salle?
This body of water exposed Louisiana colonists to dangerous hurricanes.
What is the Gulf of America (or Gulf of Mexico)?
The French built this trading post in 1714.
What is Natchitoches?
This government official managed the colony's money.
What is the commissaire ordonnateur?
This group was forced to come to Louisiana through the slave trade.
Who are African people?
The Louisiana colony was named after this French king.
Who is King Louis XIV?
This weather disaster in 1722 caused New Orleans to rebuild with new architecture.
What is a catastrophic hurricane?
Natchitoches became the main trading post between French colonists and this group.
Who are Native Americans (or Native American people)?
This was Louisiana's first court of law.
What is the superior council?
Free people of African descent in Louisiana were called this.
What is Gens de Couleur Libres?
He founded Louisiana's first capital and built strong relationships with Native American tribes.
Who is Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville?
Lower Louisiana included wetlands in this fertile river plain.
What is the Mississippi Alluvial Plain?
This group established missions around the French settlement at Natchitoches.
Who are the Spanish (or Spanish colonists)?
This official with military experience controlled executive, administrative, and military decisions.
Who is the governor?
Warriors from this nation killed about 200 French settlers during their revolt.
Who are the Natchez (people)?
This man advertised Louisiana to Europeans but mismanaged the colony's finances and caused inflation.
Who is John Law?
Lower Louisiana had this type of climate with hot, humid summers.
What is subtropical?
French Louisiana failed at mercantilism because the land didn't have these two precious metals.
What are gold and silver?
This treaty gave Louisiana west of the Mississippi River from France to Spain.
What is the Treaty of Fontainebleau?
John Law's advertisements especially attracted people from this European country.
Who are German people (or Germans)?
This man helped rebuild New Orleans after a hurricane and designed a system to better protect it from future storms.
Who is Adrien de Pauger?
These were two geographic advantages that helped New Orleans despite the flooding and swamps.
What are fertile soil for farming and bayous/rivers/bays for navigation?
These two problems prevented successful cash crop farming in Louisiana.
What are poor soil and coastal storms?
France passed this 1724 law code to control the lives of free and enslaved African people.
What is the Code Noir?
German immigrants brought knowledge of these two farming practices to Louisiana.
What are brewing and dairy farming (or beer-making and dairy farming)?