French colony

4. The name given young women who came to Louisiana in 1728 to become wives of the settlers and brought their belongings in a small truck
6. A person who is considered the property of someone and born to a life of service
8. founded a new French settlement near the Mississippi River, at the time known as Nouvelle-Orleans(New Orleans)
10. A parcel of land given to certain individuals under certain conditions, such as their agreement to settle on it.
11. a compulsory contribution to state revenue, levied by the government on workers' income and business profits, or added to the cost of some goods, services, and transactions.
13. the rate of increase in prices over a given period of time
14. a city on the Mississippi River, and the capital of Louisiana
15. in 1712 he became the first proprietor of Louisiana, the Company of the west.
18. a country's official, paper currency
19. Name given to the collapse of the French investment company, the Company of the west.
22. An area settled by a group of people from a distance land
23. Established fort maurepas in near present day Biloxi,Mississippi.
24. a Louisiana city on the Mississippi River, near the Gulf of Mexico
25. made up of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, is an island nation in northwestern Europe

1. the second-longest river and chief river of the second-largest drainage system on the North American continent
2. The name of the laws that governed the conduct of slaves in the French colony of Louisiana.
3. claimed Louisiana for France in the name of king Louis XIV
5. long river in the United States
6. A group existing during the French colonial period that in charge of the judicial matters.
7. Name given to the water route that early europeans believed went through the North American continent to Asia
9. a country on Europe’s Iberian Peninsula, includes 17 autonomous regions with diverse geography and cultures
12. Explored the upper Mississippi down as far as the Arkansas river.
16. natives or inhabitants of Germany, and sometimes more broadly any people who are of German descent or native speakers of the German language.
17. a large farm or estate
20. System under which a colony was operated as a business by an individual or group.
21. a Scottish economist who distinguished money, a means of exchange, from national wealth dependent on trade.