Geographical Features
The area of land located between the Territory of Orleans and New Spain.
What is the Neutral Ground?
This person approved the Louisiana Purchase and appointed the first governor William C.C. Claiborne.
Who is President Thomas Jefferson?
The Louisiana Constitution of 1812 allowed which group of people to vote in elections during this time period.
What is land owning, tax paying, white males?
This means to take over a territory.
What is annex?
This was the minimum population number required to apply for statehood?
What is 60,000?
The number of parishes in Louisiana.
This person was the first Governor of Louisiana.
Who is William C.C. Claiborne?
The reason the Louisiana Constitution of 1812 was published in English and French.
What is because of the territory's European heritage?
The year the Neutral Ground was established.
What is 1806?
The next step toward statehood happens after the minimum population is reached and allows delegates to meet to move forward in the statehood process.
What is a constitutional convention?
The geographical feature that was a boundary between the area known as Neutral Ground and New Spain.
What is the Sabine River?
The German Coast Uprising was led by what group of people that were upset over their conditions and treatment.
What is enslaved people?
This happened to African Americans and Native Americans in Louisiana during the territorial period.
What is Free Blacks had their rights disappear, Enslaved Blacks had more restrictions, Native Americans were forced off their land?
The United States had conflict with this country over the borders of territories.
What is Spain?
The year the Louisiana state constitution was adopted.
What is 1812?
This location was the thriving center of trade in Louisiana.
What is the Port of New Orleans?
This man led Louisiana's first constitutional convention and served as president of the legislative council of Orleans Territory.
Who is Julien de Lallande Poydras?
This area was popular for people like escaped enslaved people, criminals, revolutionaries who wished to live in where no formal authorities.
What is the Neutral Ground?
These two things happened at the Spanish fort in Baton Rouge.
What is American settlers overthrew the Spanish AND the United States annexed the region.
This is the final step in Louisiana becoming a state.
What is approval from Congress and signature from the President?
This area was a place for pirates and smugglers to hide and escape the law.
What are bayous?
This person made a proclamation that promised the people of Louisiana protection of their rights in exchange for their allegiance to the United States.
Who is Governor William C.C. Claiborne?
Louisiana's colonial government influenced its state government by joining these two types of systems.
What is civil law system and common law system?
-Napoleonic Code
Louisiana's territorial period can be characterized by what following features.
What is diverse groups of people, growing population, important Port of New Orleans, and undefined borders?
The month, day and year Louisiana became a state.
What is April 30th, 1812?