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History, Social Studies
8th
grade
Chapter 3 - Exploration & French Louisiana
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- 1. Multiple Choice
Which of the following is not a reason European nations started colonies?
Raw materials
Religion
New routes and markets
Alliances with natives
- 2. Multiple Choice
Explorers from which country were first to enter Louisiana?
Italy
France
Spain
England
- 3. Multiple Choice
Who was the first European explorer to discover the Mississippi River?
Christopher Columbus
Henri de Tonti
Rene-Robert Cavalier, sieur de La Salle
Hernando De Soto
- 4. Multiple Choice
Father Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet led the first journey down the ____________________________ .
Louisiana River
Mississippi River
Gulf of Mexico
East Coast of America
- 5. Multiple Choice
Who claimed Louisiane for France?
Christopher Columbus
Henri de Tonti
Rene-Robert Cavalier, sieur de La Salle
Hernando De Soto
- 6. Multiple Choice
What was the first capital of Louisiana?
Fort St. Louis de la Mobile
New Orleans
Fort Maurepas
Natchitoches
- 7. Multiple Choice
Who founded Natchitoches?
St. Denis
De Soto
La Salle
Columbus
- 8. Multiple Choice
What was the Natchez uprising?
French soldiers attacked a Natchez village
The Natchez went to war with the Chickasaw
The Choctaw and Caddo went to war with the Natchez
Natchez Indians attacked Fort Rosalie
- 9. Multiple Choice
True or False?
The French cooperated with the Indians to profit from the fur trade.
TRUE
FALSE
- 10. Multiple Choice
True or False?
The French government asked people such as drunks, beggars, criminals, and orphans to sign up to come to Louisiana.
TRUE
FALSE
- 11. Multiple Choice
An economic pattern that moved slaves, goods, and crops
Code Noir
Le Grand Derangement
Triangular Trade
Forcat
- 12. Multiple Choice
Acadians were forcibly removed from Canada
Code Noir
Le Grand Derangement
Triangular Trade
Forcat
- 13. Multiple Choice
Brought to Louisiane to marry colonists
Coureurs de bois
Pelican Girls
Ursuline Nuns
Forcat
- 14. Multiple Choice
The French proprietor who had a 15 year monopoly of commerce in Louisiane in the early 1700's.
Cadillac
John Law
Crozat
Perier
- 15. Multiple Choice
Which of the following is an example of a pull factor for migration?
New opportunities and jobs
War
Lack of money
Restrictions on religion
- 16. Fill in the Blank
France secretly ceded the colony of Louisiane to Spain in the Treaty of ______________ .
- 17. Fill in the Blank
After ____ ___ took control of Louisiane, he bumped up stock prices in the "Mississippi Bubble" venture.
- 18. Fill in the Blank
What does it mean to "cede" land?
- 19. Fill in the Blank
Why was the Ohio River Valley important to both the French and British?
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