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Early Settlers
Important Cultures
Louisiana People
Cause and Effect
Louisiana Purchase
100
This Spanish explorer traveled along the Mississippi River while searching for gold.
Who is Hernando de Soto?
100
This French symbol represented royalty, and is now a popular symbol of Louisiana.
What is a fleur-de-lis?
100
She was the first African-American child to attend an all-white school in the United States.
Who is Ruby Bridges?
100
This caused the Native Americans to be able to grow many crops.
What is the Mississippi River and its fertile soil?
100
This was a natural resource Jefferson wanted to control.
What is the Mississippi River?
200
These French-Canadian brothers founded New Orleans in 1718.
Who are Bienville and Iberville?
200
This special culture is a mixture of Spanish, French, African, and Native American.
What is Creole?
200
He was the French explorer who claimed and named Louisiana.
Who is Robert de La Salle?
200
This was an effect of the French claiming Louisiana.
What is many French settlements and/or a lot of French influence on culture?
200
These two led the Corps of Discovery to explore and make maps of the new lands.
Who are Lewis and Clark?
300
Because of two great fires, most of the buildings in the French Quarter were rebuilt under this country's rule.
What is Spain?
300
This country was in control of Louisiana when the Cajuns arrived.
What is Spain?
300
He was the first African-American mayor of New Orleans.
Who is Ernest "Dutch" Morial?
300
The emergence of this class of people was an effect of so many different cultures living together.
What is Creole?
300
This was the effect of the Louisiana Purchase on the size of the United States.
What is doubled in size?
400
Name two Native American tribes that lived in present-day Louisiana.
Atakapa, Natchez, Caddo, Chitimacha, Houma, Tunica, or Choctaw
400
Name some examples of Louisiana cuisine inspired by other cultures. Give an example of the food and the culture.
beignet, French; crawfish, cajun; gumbo, creole, jambalaya, creole/african; muffuletta, italian
400
He was the French Emperor who sold Louisiana to the United States.
Who is Napoleon?
400
This was the cause of the Spanish having to rebuild much of the city of New Orleans.
What is fire?
400
This is the amount the United States paid for the Louisiana Territory.
What is $15 million?
500
What are some impacts European settlement had on Native Americans?
Native Americans were exposed to diseases and lost their lands. Native Americans also traded and learned to communicate with Europeans.
500
Why did Cajuns eat things like turtles, crawfish, and alligator?
They were natural resources, and Cajuns adapted to living near swamps and bayous.
500
Louisiana is named for these two French royals.
Who are King Louis XIV and Queen Ana?
500
This caused Louisiana to be a valuable place for trade and farming.
What is the Mississippi River and other natural resources?
500
Name an impact of the Louisiana Purchase on Native Americans.
They were forced to become more "American" in culture and/or they were forced from their lands.