French Colony Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 1. A man who helped establish the first permanent European settlement in the lower Mississippi River Valley in 1686
  2. 4. Explored the upper Mississippi down as far as the Arkansas River
  3. 5. A name given to A man who helped establish the first permanent European settlement in the lower Mississippi River Valley in 1686
  4. 7. A country that owned the 13 colonies
  5. 8. A treaty that made France lose the Louisiana colony
  6. 12. Type currency used, in France besides coins
  7. 14. A tragic event that happened on his second expedition
  8. 16. Created the Mississippi Bubble
  9. 18. Name given to the water route that early Europeans believed went through the North American continent to Asia
  10. 22. Established fort Maurepas in near present Biloxi, Mississippi
  11. 23. Founded a new French settlement near the Mississippi River, at the time known as Nouvelle-Orleans(New Orleans)
  12. 25. A group existing during the French colonial period that was in charge of the judicial matters
  13. 26. Name given to the collapse of the French Investment company, the Company of the West
  14. 27. Country that helped the French colony a lot
Down
  1. 2. An attack on a fort planned by Indians
  2. 3. The tribe that worked with France in the war
  3. 6. In 1712 he became the first proprietor of Louisiana, the Company of the West
  4. 9. System under which a colony was operated as a business by an individual or group
  5. 10. An area settled by a group of people from a distant land
  6. 11. The name of the laws that governed the conduct of slaves in the French colony of Louisiana
  7. 13. A country that took all of Frances land after the war
  8. 15. A parcel of land given to certain individuals under certain conditions, such as their agreement to settle on it
  9. 17. The name given to young women who came to Louisiana in 1728 to become wives of the settlers and brought their belongings in a small trunk
  10. 19. A large farm or estate
  11. 20. A person who is considered the property of someone and bound to a life of service
  12. 21. "Red Stick"
  13. 22. The tribe that worked with Great Britain in the war
  14. 24. Claimed Louisiana for France in the name of King Louis XIV