5th - SS Chapter 6 French Colonial People Flashcards
(30 cards)
A system that gave an individual a charter (or contract) to operate a colony as a business?
Proprietorship
A group of people who settle Ina distant land but who still keep their ties to their native land?
Colony
A group existing during the French colonial period that was in charge of judicial matters and was presided over by the commissary commissioner?
Superior Council
A parcel of land given to the directors of the Company of the West under the condition that they bring settlers to the colony?
Land grant
The collapse of the French investment company, the Company of the West?
Mississippi Bubble
A person who is bound to a life of service to others and who is considered properly?
Slave
A large estate or farm?
Plantation
A set of laws governing the conduct of the slaves during the French colonial period?
Code Noir
Young women came to Louisiana in 1728 to become wives of the settlers; the young women brought their trousseaus in a casket, or barrel-like chest?
Casket girls
Who established the first trading post in Canada?
The French
In 1673, who left Canada to find a water route to Asia?
Joliet and Marquette
Why did Joliet and Marquette return to the north instead of continuing their exploration of the Mississippi River?
They were unwilling to risk an encounter with the Indians.
Who sailed down the Mississippi River in search of a water route to China in 1682?
Robert La Salle and Henri de Tonti
Who claimed all the land drained by the Mississippi River for Louis XIV of France?
Robert La Salle
Who established the first French colony at the mouth of the Mississippi River?
Brothers d’Iberville and de Bienville
What was the first French colony called?
Fort Maurepas
What did Henri de Tonti leave behind with the Indians who lived near the Mississippi River?
A letter called the “speaking bark.”
Who established the Code Noir, a set of laws governing the conduct and treatment of slaves?
Bienville
After Iberville died and Bienville became the leader of the colony, what happened to the French rule?
The French rule weakened
After the war in Europe, France was broke (war was very costly) so Louisiana became a what?
Proprietorship
Who did the French give the first proprietorship of Louisiana? What was his primary motive?
Antoine Crozat; he expected to find gold and silver. His motive was profit.
Who did Crozat select as the new governor of proprietorship of Louisiana?
Cadillac
Who did Cadillac select to command a fort at Natchitoches?
St. Denis
What was one important thing that St. Denis do?
He setup trade with the Spanish.
