The European Period
Spanish Exploration

French Exploration
Under British Rule
A Spanish Province
100

 Was discussed as the leading explorer to the Far East.

Marco Polo

100

City discovered in 1718

New Orleans

100

Two rivers discovered by Marquette and Joliet.

Mississippi and Arkansas

100

Where did the French land in Mississippi in 1699?

Ship Island

100

Attracted English settlers to the Spanish Natchez District.

liberal land grants

200

The art of making maps and charts.

cartography

200

Area of land politically controlled by a distant country.

colonies

200

Why was the Mississippi River so important in the early 1700’s?

in order to control the waterway; locate a new route of transportation

200

Created a special school for seamen and explorers in Portugal.

Prince Henry the Navigator

200

Discovered the modern day lands of Arkansas, Georgia, and Mississippi

Hernando de Soto

300

Discovered the Louisiana Province

LaSalle

300

Journey for a certain reason. 

Expedition

300

Discovered Mississippi for the French

Iberville

300

Created so that new settlers could not come to Mississippi after the French and Indian War.

Proclamation of 1763

300

Foundation of Natchez

Fort Rosalie

400

Special laws for African Americans.

Black Codes

400

Created the city of New Orleans.

Jean Baptiste de Bienville

400

Ended the French and Indian War.

Treat of Paris of 1763

400

Spanish Governor of the Natchez District.

Manuel Gayoso de Lemos

400

A large amount of the settlers in the Natchez District supported which side during the American Revolution?Colonists who remained loyal to the British.

Loyalists

500

Agree which ended the American Revolutionary War.

Treaty of Paris of 1783

500

Force of citizen-soldiers.

militia

500

area of land politically controlled by a distant country

colony

500

Flowing together of two rivers.

confluence

500

Sent by the Continental Congress to convince the citizens to support the rebels in the American Revolution.

James Willing

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