Vocabulary
To take over a country.
What is annex?
West Florida
What is the land that the United States annexed in 1810?
There are 64 parishes.
How many parishes are in the state of Louisiana today?
sixty thousand.
What is the minimum population requirement for applying for statehood?
end
cessation
A marshy body of water that connects to a lake or river.
What is a bayou?
The area between the sabine river and the Orleans Territory. Both French and Spanish agreed not to settle.
What is the neutral ground?
a group of twelve citizens who administered a parish.
What was a police jury?
It expanded quickly as a result of trade through the Port of New Orleans
What happened to the economy of the Territory of Orleans after it came under American control?
To obey laws of the United states.
What does Gov. Claiborne asks in his proclamation?
People or European, African, Indigenous, or mixed descent who were born in Louisiana.
Who are Creoles?
The borders were not defined well add those livng there their whole life didn't want to follow the new rules put in place.
Why did the US and Spain have conflict about the borders?
twelve parishes to start, and there are now sixty-four.
How many parishes did Louisiana start with?
The Mississippi River was the major shipping route for goods produced west of the Appalachian Mountains, and the river ended at the Port of New Orleans
Why was the Port of New Orleans important?
establishes who has the right to vote in elections—namely, free white men over the age of twenty-one who pay taxes or own land.
What does Article II do?
protections from penalities
What is immunities?
It is Made up of French people, Spanish people, Germans, Cajuns (Acadians), white Americans, enslaved African Americans, free African Americans, and Native Americans.
What is the diverse population of Orleans?
Pirates smuggled goods and people on the many waterways, and people running from the law hid in the swamps and bayous.
How did Louisiana’s geography make it difficult to govern?
April 30, 1812
When did Louisiana become a state?
They will have the rights and advantages of citizens of the United States and will be protected by the United States government.
What does incorporation into the United States mean for the people of Orleans Territory, according to Govenor Claiborne?
Strongly encourage
What is exhort?
Unsettled land west of the Mississippps.
What is the Neutral zone.
Common law and civil law.
What types of laws Louisiana uses?
It created a bicameral legislature and limited voting to adult, white, taxpaying men, as well as giving a lot of power to the governor
What did Louisiana’s first state constitution do?
Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
Which American founding documents does the text of the preamble of the Louisiana Constitution sound like?