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Page 1: 1. Native Americans1. Native Americans  Along Bayou St. John and the lake front  Used river and lake to trade  French Market was trading post  Built
Page 2: 1. Native Americans1. Native Americans  Along Bayou St. John and the lake front  Used river and lake to trade  French Market was trading post  Built

1. Native Americans1. Native Americans Along Bayou St. John and

the lake front

Used river and lake to trade

French Market was trading post

Built homes out of palmetto leaves and tree branches

Ate mudfish and crawfish; hunted wild animals

Page 3: 1. Native Americans1. Native Americans  Along Bayou St. John and the lake front  Used river and lake to trade  French Market was trading post  Built

2. Spanish Explorers2. Spanish Explorers Hernando de Soto was in Florida

First European to see Mississippi River

Crossed river in 1541

Not interested in settling or taking it

Hostile Native Americans

Page 4: 1. Native Americans1. Native Americans  Along Bayou St. John and the lake front  Used river and lake to trade  French Market was trading post  Built

Looking for adventure

Gold

Religious freedom

Opportunity to improve life

Page 5: 1. Native Americans1. Native Americans  Along Bayou St. John and the lake front  Used river and lake to trade  French Market was trading post  Built

Spanish wanted gold

Large colony in the Caribbean, North and South America

River large and annoying

No gold found in the marshes / swamps

Page 6: 1. Native Americans1. Native Americans  Along Bayou St. John and the lake front  Used river and lake to trade  French Market was trading post  Built

3. French Explorers3. French Explorers Robert LaSalle

claimed LA for France in 1699

Brothers Iberville and Bienville explored the area at mouth of river

Iberville was killed when he couldn’t find mouth on the return

Bienville longtime governor of LA

Page 7: 1. Native Americans1. Native Americans  Along Bayou St. John and the lake front  Used river and lake to trade  French Market was trading post  Built

John LawJohn Law People didn’t want to

live in LA

Swamp, hot, bugs, far from home

Businessman sold promise of great land

Not many came

France sent prisoners and unemployed to settle LA

Page 8: 1. Native Americans1. Native Americans  Along Bayou St. John and the lake front  Used river and lake to trade  French Market was trading post  Built

Not SuccessfulNot Successful Hurricanes

destroyed new colony

Difficult time with river, low land

Couldn’t grow vegetables in swamp

Unable to harness potential of port

Page 9: 1. Native Americans1. Native Americans  Along Bayou St. John and the lake front  Used river and lake to trade  French Market was trading post  Built

4. Enslaved Africans4. Enslaved Africans Taken from Africa

within one year of setting up city

Put to task of building city- clearing trees, building houses, levees

Planted cash crops (cotton, sugar, tobacco)

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5. Spanish take over5. Spanish take over Treaty of

Fontainebleau (secret) and Treaty of Paris (public)

Broke up Americas between Spain and Britain

Secret until 1764

Wanted to dump expensive colony

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Spanish RuleSpanish Rule At first passive in the

takeover

More serious about colony

Opened up port (Treaty of San Lorenzo)

Rebuilt French Quarter because of fires

Progressive slave laws

Colony begins being profitable

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6. Cajuns6. Cajuns Canada won by

British

Treaty of Paris gave 18 months for French Canadians to leave if they wanted

Many Acadians left

Came to French colony (now Spanish)

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Cajun LifeCajun Life Lived along

bayous

Fur trapping

Fishing

Hunting

Country living

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7. Spain Gives LA Back to 7. Spain Gives LA Back to FranceFrance

Treaty of San Ildefonso

Napoleon wanted to revive French Empire

Was conquering land all over

1800

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8. Louisiana Purchase 8. Louisiana Purchase 18031803

Spain gave Louisiana to France in 1800…

Nothing happened.

France dealing with insurrection in Haiti

France runs out of money

Sells LA to America in Louisiana Purchase

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New Orleans becomes New Orleans becomes American?American?

Still very French (Creole)

Divided city

RICH city

Steamship invented in 1811

Port becomes profitable

Golden Era of New Orleans