French colony

1. System under which a colony was operated as a business by an individual or group.
3. founded a new French settlement near the Mississippi River, at the time known as Nouvelle-Orleans(New Orleans)
4. a country on Europe’s Iberian Peninsula, includes 17 autonomous regions with diverse geography and cultures
8. a large farm or estate
10. a country's official, paper currency
12. A parcel of land given to certain individuals under certain conditions, such as their agreement to settle on it.
15. natives or inhabitants of Germany, and sometimes more broadly any people who are of German descent or native speakers of the German language.
17. Name given to the water route that early europeans believed went through the North American continent to Asia
20. a Louisiana city on the Mississippi River, near the Gulf of Mexico
21. 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.
22. claimed Louisiana for France in the name of king Louis XIV
23. A group existing during the French colonial period that in charge of the judicial matters.
24. made up of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, is an island nation in northwestern Europe
25. a city on the Mississippi River, and the capital of Louisiana
26. the second-longest river and chief river of the second-largest drainage system on the North American continent

2. the rate of increase in prices over a given period of time
5. long river in the United States
6. Explored the upper Mississippi down as far as the Arkansas river.
7. a Scottish economist who distinguished money, a means of exchange, from national wealth dependent on trade.
9. An area settled by a group of people from a distance land
11. Established fort maurepas in near present day Biloxi,Mississippi.
13. in 1712 he became the first proprietor of Louisiana, the Company of the west.
14. 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
16. Name given to the collapse of the French investment company, the Company of the west.
18. The name of the laws that governed the conduct of slaves in the French colony of Louisiana.
19. A person who is considered the property of someone and born to a life of service