Early Beginnings
This individual led the first widely known expedition across what would today be Mississippi.
Who is Hernando de Soto?
This conflict saw fighting for nine years and led to England gaining territory from France and Spain.
What is the Seven Years War (French-Indian)?
This fort mentioned many times in our course was not rebuilt by the French after falling apart.
What is Fort Rosalie?
This French explorer was sent by his homeland to build a French settlement after finding the mouth of the Mississippi River.
Who is Sieur de La Salle?
While he was not the first person to land in North America, this Spanish explorer landed in North America in 1492.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
After de Soto's expedition ended, these three countries realized the potential the New World held and began to race to claim land.
What is France, England, and Spain (English, French, Spanish)?
This meeting was set between Natives and the English to establish a working trade and settlement relationship.
What is the Indian Congress?
The Spanish recaptured the Florida territory, which included the Natchez District, in 1781 from this nation.
What is England (or the English)?
This modern-day city, founded in 1716, became one of the major focal settlements of trade and control along the Mississippi River.
What is Natchez?
This man was made governor of the Natchez District during late Spanish occupation.
Who is Manuel Gayoso de Lemos?
With de Soto's expedition through the southeastern U.S., it marked the unofficial beginning of this period in American history.
What is the Colonial period?
This document solidified the U.S. as a independent nation in the eyes of the British.
What is the Treaty of Paris of 1783?
It was in this year that the Spanish finally fully left the Natchez District and it was fully under American control.
What is 1798?
After claiming the land around modern-day Mississippi and Louisiana at the mouth of the Mississippi River, the French explorers named it after this member of reigning royalty.
Who is King Louie XIV?
This set of rules and regulations, instituted by Bienville, was designed to regulate slavery in the French District and translates to "Black Code."
What is Code Noir?
This individual began a school of navigation in Portugal, which led the man of royalty to earn the nickname "The Navigator."
Who is Prince Henry?
After seizing land from Spain, the English government split the southern land of Florida. This was the region that the Natchez District was apart of.
What is West Florida?
This fear among Spanish slaves owners prompted them to form a militia and hunt down leaders to be arrested and killed.
What is the Slave Revolt of 1795.
This document ceded all of France's claim to land in the mainland to England and Spain.
What is the Treaty of Paris of 1763?
This boat, which may be one of the most important ships in history, was the main vessel that Columbus used on his voyage to the New World.
What is the Santa Maria?
These two reasons, among other wild and crazy beliefs, were driving forces behind no explorers prior to the Navigation School wanting to sail below Africa.
What is boiling temperatures and sea monsters?
This was issued by England to keep settlers from moving into Native territory for the time-being.
This vocabulary word signified the end of Spanish control of the Natchez District along with giving Americans free access to the Mississippi River
What is the Treaty of San Lorenzo?
This man became the governor of the French land and later instituted many different policies, such as the Casquette Girls.
Who is Bienville?
This man was sent by the Continental Congress to get English citizens in the Natchez District to support the revolution.
Who is James Willing?