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55 Cards in this Set
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Free people of color occupied the middle section of a 3-tier hierarchy in which they were not truly... |
slaves nor free |
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New Orleans population is evenly distributed between free people____ and ____ |
Libres and Slaves |
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Who was accused of killing a prostitute named Eliza Phillips? |
Abraham Parker |
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Plantation mistress who was pre-deceased by her 2 sons and husbands and sold her plantation to her half brother _____ which allowed her to remain there |
Rachel O'connor David Weeks |
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Upper sectors wanted to maintain total tranquility, challenges came from groups involving.... |
Workers, women, soldiers, slaves, and free blacks |
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New Orleans's resident population grew from ____to___
The percentage of free blacks rose from ___to___ percent, 2/3 were women |
3,000-8,000
10-20% |
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accused of re-possesing a slave he donated to his former concubine |
Paul Alliot |
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What did authorities in spain want and why? |
Maintain social and political boundaries between, whites, libres, and free blacks |
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how did free black women resist spanish authorities? |
continued to promote identity and test boundaries |
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when did free whites in new orleans think about the character and behavior of free women of color |
when they began to use cultural expressions and political acts such as parades, balls, etc.
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how did free women of color see themselves? |
striving to attain what is important to them and reforming a system |
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What did the free women of color want? |
Freedom for self, friends, and relatives kinship networks prosperity and respect |
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In what ways did libre women have more choices than white women and slaves |
they had money and political power, operated business, and excersized economic power |
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Transfer of LA from france to spain occured with the.... |
Treaty of Paris of 1763 |
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France appointed 3 officials until spain arrived. ___, ____, and ____ |
D'abbadie De Lanfranierre Foucault |
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Led a delegation to meet w/ the king of france to keep LA french |
Jean Milhet |
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replaced D'abbadie after he died, claimed LA was ungovernable |
Aubry |
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____ becomes first spanish governor of Louisiana in March___ |
ulloa 1766 |
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Trade Decrees of 1766 had 4 policies: |
1- establish fixed prices 2- company selling goods had to accept LA money 3- cant leave w/out purchasing LA goods 4-ship must stop first in spain to get LA passport |
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Trade Decrees of 1768 had 3 policies: |
1-no illegal trade 2- french trade sent through spanish forts 3- wine only imported from spain |
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Trade Decrees of 1768 led to this rebellion |
rebellion of 1768 |
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During the rebellion of 1768 3 things happened
1- public demonstrations against spain 2- mob vandalized governors house 3- council tells spanish officials to leave
on what dates did these occur? |
1- oct 27 2- oct 28 3- oct 29 |
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King Carlos III sent him to Louisiana as governor after the rebellion of 1768 |
O'reily |
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2nd spanish governor; enforces spanish government and laws; punished rebels in the colony, and removed old french law |
Alejandro O'reily |
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Relationships between spain and britian become strange during the American Revolution when.... |
Spain allows Louisiana colonists to be used and they attack |
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Led Louisiana colonists attack on british subjects along the Mississippi river. |
James Willing |
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military leader who wanted to capture Ft. Bout; seized control of Ft. New Richmond |
Galvez |
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Galvez captured 2 british defenses of Pensicola in what year? |
1781 |
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What 2 british defenses of Pensicola did Galvez capture? |
Ft. George Red Cliffs |
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Galvez returned the east and west florida to spanish control on this date |
may 1781 |
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England returned East and west florida to spanish control and gave us land west of the mississippi river with the treaty of..... |
Paris of 1783 |
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Financer of american revolution; attributed to creation of dollar sign in 1778 |
Oliver Pollock |
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3 major groups immigrate to the Louisiana colony
1- Canary Island 2-Southern Spain 3- Acadians
where did they settle? |
1- St. Bernard, and amite river parishes 2- New Iberia 3- St. James and Ascension parish |
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Spanish government established a cabildo with 3 major roles, what were they? |
1-advise 2-govern new orleans 3- served as archives |
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an 1870 civil law that got rid of old french law |
New spanish law |
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Cabildo was compromised of 10 memebers: |
6- regidars 3- annual memebers 1- governor |
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2 major cajun cultures were? where were they located? |
bayou- original area prairie- Lafayette |
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merchant who read a report on the cotton gin and hired a mechanic to build one to success |
Daniel Clark |
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2 hospitals in the colony are....who do they treat? |
Royal- military officials St. John- civilians |
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Napoleon wanted a new empire on.... |
Louisiana and haiti |
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What was napoleons plan for Louisiana and Haiti? |
- wanted LA to become an agricultural economy and send food to slaves in haiti.
-haiti would serve as a naval base |
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Why did napoleons plan fail? |
Haitian rebellion |
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secret document returning louisiana from French rule to Spanish rule |
Treaty of Iildefonso in 1800 |
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this treaty allowed trade in new orleans for a 3 year period and permitted americans full navigation of the mississippi river |
Pickney's treaty |
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____ decided the us had to find a way to take possesion of new orleans if american trade was to keep expanding |
Thomas Jefferson |
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___ was sent by Thomas Jefferson to paris in 1803 to work with ___ livingston to try and purchase Louisiana |
James Monroe Robert |
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worked with Thomas Jefferson to resolve issue through diplomatic channels |
James Madison |
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what area did the US aquire with the purchase of louisiana? from the ___ to present day ___ |
mouth of mississippi canada |
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What was the importance of the louisiana purchase for the US |
navigation right, and owning new orleans |
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The territory of___ was lead by ____ with 13 members on a council that divided it into 12 counties |
Orleans w.c.c Claiborne |
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Area not recognized, existed from March 10, 1804- July, 4th, 1805 |
District of Louisiana |
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The district of louisiana was a ___ district from (March 10th, 1804- Sept, 30th, 1804) |
military |
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The district of louisiana was a ___ district from (Oct 1, 1804- July 5th, 1805) |
organized |
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attorney in virginia, succedded andrew jackson in house of representatives |
w.c.c Claiborne |
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who led the west florida revolution? |
Phileman Thomas |
