The home country that controls all resources and markets.
What is the mother country?
100
The country De Soto is from.
What is Spain?
100
Wanted to expand fur trade in North America and claimed Louisiana for France.
Who is La Salle?
100
1st permanent French settlement.
What is Fort Maurepas?
100
Crozat was searching for this in order to gain wealth.
What is gold, silver, and other jewels?
200
Materials, Resources, Crops, or any other rare materials.
What is Raw Materials?
200
The disease De Soto died from.
What is yellow fever?
200
Was sent by the King of France to reclaim Louisiana and created the settlements Fort Maurepas and Fort de Mississippi.
Who is Iberville?
200
Created after Fort Maurepas proved to not be good for farming.
What is Fort Louis?
200
Would become Louisiana's main source of income?
What is agriculture?
300
The mother country controls all resources and markets, with the expectation that the colonies would provide raw materials to the mother country and purchase goods from only the mother country.
What is mercantilism?
300
What De Soto was searching for on his exploration.
What is gold?
300
Founded New Orleans in order to control trade up and down the Mississippi River and to protect the Mississippi River from other European countries.
Who is Bienville?
300
The Cane River flows through the site of this settlement.
What is Natchitoches?
300
It was an easy way to make a profit and have good trade relations with Native Americans.
What is fur trade?
400
People of Louisiana would trade goods with different types of people in the region.
What is frontier exchange?
400
The major accomplishment that De Soto is most known for.
Who is the first European explorer to cross the Mississippi River?
400
Founded Natchitoches to use as a trading outpost.
Who is St. Denis?
400
Would become a major site for trade. The Mississippi River could be used as a trading route for the interior parts of North America and the Gulf of Mexico could be used for trading of imports and exports.
What is New Orleans
400
This style of farming would develop in Louisiana.
What is plantation style farming?
500
When an individual is given a charter to operate the colony as a business.
What is a proprietorship?
500
De Soto and his crew had unfriendly relations with this group.
Who is Native Americans?
500
Bluffed to the British on the Mississippi River on the spot known as the, "English Turn."
Who is Bienville?
500
The natural levee of the area made this site ideal to help protect the mouth of the Mississippi River.
What is Fort de Mississippi?
500
With the low populations and the increasing need for farmers, this would increase ____________.