Spanish Louisiana Study Guide
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ANSWER ON LOOSE-LEAF PAPER!
Directions: Use your notes and class activities (station work, etc.) to answer the following questions.
****Also study your leader report cards. You need to know the major events of each governor****
1. How did Spain get Louisiana?
2. Why did the colonists not like Ulloa?
3. What was the result of Ulloa’s leadership style?
4. What was the Creole Revolution?
5. Why is he called Bloody O’Reilly?
6. What is the Cabildo?
7. Why did O’Reilly create 12 parishes?
8. What are manumission papers?
9. What is an arbitrator?
10. Name 3 ways the Spanish increased rights for slaves.
11. How did Unzaga help the American colonists?
12. What country traded on floating warehouses?
13. How did Galvez help the American colonists?
14. Who did Spain & France side with during the American Revolution?
15. What was Governor Miro’s biggest achievement?
16. Who were the Kaintocks?
17. What were land grants? What else did you get besides land?
18. Who were the Isleños and where did they settle?
19. Why did the English force the Acadians to leave Nova Scotia?
20. Why did the Spanish invite the Acadians to Louisiana? Where did the Acadians settle in Louisiana
and why?
21. What is the true meaning of a Cajun?
22. Why is the French Quarter not really French?
23. What law does Carondelet make after the French Quarter fires?
24. What issues did the Treaty of San Lorenzo settle? Who signed it?
25. What is the “right of deposit”?
26. What was the Point Coupee slave rebellion? Who was blamed and why?
27. What are Foreign French? Why did they come to Louisiana?
28. Why did Napoleon want Louisiana back? What was the Treaty of San Ildefonso?
29. Why was Jefferson concerned about Napoleon?
30. Who did Jefferson send to buy Louisiana? How much did they spend? What is ironic about where
the U.S. got the money from?
31. Why did Napoleon decide to sell Louisiana?
32. Who does Jefferson send to explore the Louisiana Purchase?
33. How did the Louisiana Purchase change the United States?
34. What does assimilating mean?
35. Explain “Three Flags in Three Weeks”.