French Colony

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Across
  1. 4. A large farm or estate
  2. 5. Name given to the collapse of the French investment company, the Company of the West
  3. 9. second longest river in the US
  4. 12. relating to, or being a Christian church having a hierarchy of priests and bishops under the pope
  5. 14. Scottish monetary reformer and originator of the “Mississippi scheme” for the development of French territories in America
  6. 16. the main way of traveling during the French and Indian war.
  7. 17. Explored the upper Mississippi down as far as the Arkansas River
  8. 21. The name of laws that governed the conduct of slaves in the French colony of Louisiana
  9. 22. Name given to the water route that went through the North American continent to Asia
  10. 24. A parcel of land given to certain individuals under certain conditions
  11. 26. Name given to young women who came to Louisiana in 1728 to become wives of settlers
  12. 27. Claimed Louisiana for France in the name of King Louis XIV
  13. 28. belonging or relating to the United Kingdom
  14. 29. In 1712 he became the first proprietor of Louisiana, the Company of the West
  15. 30. a Caddo confederacy of northwestern Louisiana
Down
  1. 1. Established Fort Maurepas in near present day Biloxi, Mississippi
  2. 2. god of the underworld
  3. 3. a person who moves to a new place with the intention to stay there
  4. 6. A group of existing during the French colonial period that was in charge of the judicial matters
  5. 7. Explored the upper Mississippi down as far as the Arkansas River
  6. 8. Founded a new French settlement near the Mississippi River, at the time known as Nouvelle-Orleans
  7. 10. a parliamentary monarchy in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula
  8. 11. a country's official, paper currency
  9. 13. the rate of increase in prices over a given period of time
  10. 15. a member of any of the indigenous peoples of North, Central, and South America, especially those indigenous to what is now the continental US
  11. 18. A person who is considered the property of someone and bound to a life of service
  12. 19. An area settled by a group of people from a distant land
  13. 20. money that is owed or due.
  14. 23. the science or practice of farming
  15. 25. ethnic group of Americans with total or partial ancestry from any of the Black racial groups of Africa