Early
What country did Columbus think he had landed on, when he discovered America?
What is India
First exploreres France sent to explore the MS River?
Marquette and Joliet
What war gave the British control of Mississippi?
French and Indian War
Who was the Spanish Governor of Mississippi during Spains occupation of Mississippi?
Manuel Gayoso De Lemon
French women brought to Fort Maurepas to marry settlers in Mississippi?
Casquette Girls
What spanish explorer explored the Mississippi River? ( He was buried in the MS River)
Who is Hernando De Soto?
Who was lousiana named after?
Louis the XIV
Fort Panmure
What event happened in 1795 in the NAtchez District?
Slave revolt
Treaty that settled the French and Indian War in 1763?
Treaty of Paris
What is a citizen army?
What is a militia
This for became the center of French activity in the Louisana Province
What is Fort Rosalie?
What law was supposed to stop colonists from moving west of the Appalachain Mountains?
Proclamation of 1763
What treaty addressed the territorial dispute between the U.S. and Spain over Mississippi?
Treaty of San Lorenzo
What factor contrinuted to Spain and American tensions?
Spains refusal to give up territory.
What is a loyalists?
Why did Bienville attack the Natchez Indians
They killed furtraders
Who was supposed to go to Natchez and sway loyalists to support the Patriots (American Colonies)
James Willing
Raising the American flag in Natchez signified what event in 1798?
U.S. took control of Mississippi from Spain
What year did Mississippi offically become a territory?
1798
colonists that supported the colonies during the American Revolutionary War? ( There is a movie about the Revolutionary War named this)
What is a Patriot.
What two brothers settled Fort Maurepas?
Bienville and D' Iberville
Why were the citizens of the Natchez district loyal to Great Britain?
Mostly former British soldiers
Major social issue in the Natchez district during Spain's occupation?
Slavery
Name something in Bienville's Code Noir
No married couple seperations
No children under 14 could be removed from family.
once freed gained 100% french citizenship.