Opportunities and Challenges
What flag was raised and what flag was lowered after the Louisiana Purchase was complete in 1803?
American Flag-Raised
French flag-Lowered
Orleans was home to many people known as the what?
Creoles
What number state did Louisiana become when it successfully become apart of the union?
Eighteenth
How many parishes did Louisiana first have during the Louisiana Purchase? How many parishes do we have now?
12
64
What is a marshy body of water that connects to a lake or river?
Bayou
Name TWO opportunities the Louisiana Purchase provided for the people?
1. Land
2. Security
3. Economic opportunity
Who did William Charles Cole Claiborne become?
Orlean's first territorial government
What language was the FINAL version of the constitution written in?
English
What were negative reasons Louisiana's swamps and bayous were traveled for?
For smugglers, pirates, fugitives, and runaways to hid from law enforcement
To take over territory
What was a big problem with the United States sharing a border with France?
The border was not well defined
What did Congress do according to the land in 1804?
Divided the newly acquired land into into two territories.
What is the enabling act?
A law that creates new powers of allows new actions to be taken.
According to the maps, Converse, LA was apart of what territory during the Louisiana Purchase times?
Neutral Ground
A special journey taken by a group that has a clear purpose or goal
Expedition
What was the Neutral Ground surrounded by?
The Sabine River to the west and the Arroyo Hondo to the east.
Louisiana is the only state to have what? Who was the leader at the time this was decided?
Parishes
Under Claiborne's leadership
Who were the people that were denied voting rights?
Non-taxpaying white men, all women, and nonwhite men
People in Orleans had their own what?
Political systems, languages, religions, and cultures
A person who translates from one language to another
Interpreter
Who won the French and Indian war and what year?
Great Britain, 1763
Today, Louisiana is the only state in the nation that has a mixture of what two laws?
Civil law and common law
What was the Port of New Orlean's main features?
Thriving center of trade
Import/export center
Steamboats and ships
Labor force
Who was elected the state's first governor a few months later after the Louisiana became a state?
William Charles Cole Claiborne
The high line in the Rockies from which water flows east on one side and west on the other
Continental Divide