Explorers
He sailed for the Spanish in 1492 trying to find a faster route to China.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
This plant is used to create a blue dye.
What is indigo?
Areas explored by DeSoto.
What is Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, North And South Carolina, and Georgia?
Their interest in the New World was gold.
Who were the Spanish?
He traveled throughout the south and was eventually buried in the Mississippi River.
Who was Hernando DeSoto?
What is an expedition?
What is Biloxi, Yazoo and Natchez?
Their interest in the New World was fur trading.
Who were the French?
They sailed down the Mississippi River in two canoes to scout out the area for the French.
Who were Joliet and Marquette?
A geographical area controlled by a distant country.
What is a colony?
The second settlement created at the mouth of the Mississippi River by Bienville.
What is New Orleans?
Their colonies were located on the Atlantic Coast.
Who were the British?
He claimed the area known as Mississippi for the French.
Who was LaSalle?
When two bodies of water flow together.
What is confluence?
It was created to make trade and commerce on the lower Mississippi River safe from Native American attacks.
What is Fort Rosalie?
He was called "Iron Hand".
Who is Henri Tonti?
He searched for his friend but returned to Canada after he could not find him.
Who is Henri Tonti?
The making of maps.
What is cartography?
It was the first permanent settlement on the Mississippi River and the oldest city in the state.
What is Natchez?
They participated in the "petticoat insurrection" but were unsuccessful.
Who are the casquette girls?