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Vocab
Potpourri
100
Explorers Louis Joliet and Father Marquette believed the Mississippi River might lead them to this continent.
What is Asia?
100
This governor set up a trading post that later became Detroit.
Who is Cadillac?
100
Under this, an individual or group receives a contract to operate a colony as a business.
What is a proprietorship?
100
This is a set of laws that governed the conduct and treatment of slaves.
What is the Code Noir?
100
This is the letter that Tonti left for LaSalle.
What is "speaking bark"?
200
LaSalle's journey ended when he reached this state.
What is Louisiana?
200
This governor returned from an unsuccessful trip to France to die in Havanna.
Who is Iberville?
200
This person was the first proprietor of Louisiana.
Who is Crozat?
200
Some Ursuline nuns were called these, bringing their belongings in a casket, or barrel-like chest.
What are casket girls?
200
Fort St. Jean Baptiste, founded by Louis Juchereau de St. Denis, was the name for the present day name for this city.
What is Natchitoches?
300
This country's explorers did not respect the Indians, used them as guides, and did not treat them as equals.
What is France?
300
This governor was the first to suggest growing indigo and tobacco as cash crops.
Who is Cadillac?
300
This company became proprietors after Crozat gave up.
What is the Company of the West?
300
The commissary commissioner presided over this, which was established by Cadillac to help govern a colony.
What is the Superior Council?
300
This is what was wrong with St. Denis trading with the Spanish.
What is illegal?
400
The French established their first trading post in this country.
What is Canada?
400
This governor established the Code Noir.
Who is Bienville?
400
This person headed the Company of the West.
Who is John Law?
400
This Indian tribe rose up over the French colonists of Fort Rosalie.
Who are the Natchez?
400
This is the official religion of France and the Louisiana colony.
What is Roman Catholic?
500
These are people who settle in a distant land but who are still under the control of their native land.
What are colonists?
500
This person replaced Bienville as governor of the Louisiana colony.
Who is Etienne de Perier?
500
John Law recruited this nationality of people to go to Louisiana because it would be a haven from the hopeless situation in their home country.
Who are the Germans?
500
These are free-spirited French Canadian woodsmen.
What are courer-de-bois?
500
This is the reason the Company of the West collapsed in the Mississippi Bubble.
What is not repaying investors?