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39 Cards in this Set
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Scientist believe people first arrived in our state approximately ___________ year ago.
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15,000
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____________ are objects made by people in the past, such as spear points.
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Artifacts
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_______________________ moved from place to place in search of food.
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Early Native Americans
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Many groups of Native Americans started to settle in one Place. This place was called _________
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Poverty Point
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A _________ is a place where people live.
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Settlement
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Name four groups of native Americans that lived in Louisiana.
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Natches, Caddo, Choctaw, and the Chitimacha
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How did Native Americans use their environment to meet needs?
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The Caddo used wood and grass to build homes that looked like beehives. Native Americans hunted, fished and gathered plants like earlier people. They grew crops like corn, squash and beans
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When did the Europeans begin to settle in Louisiana.
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In the early 1700s.
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Who did the Native Americans fight over land?
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The Europeans
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What native American group lives in Louisiana?
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Coushatta
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_________________ is one of the Choushatta's leaders.
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Lovelin Poncho
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A _________ shows event that have occurred. The time line can be divided into sections of singe years, decades or even centuries.
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Time line
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How do you make a time-line?
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You place the events in the sequence, or order, that they happened.
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What is a decade?
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10 years
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What is a Century?
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100 years
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Who is Hernando De Soto?
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He led a group of the first Europeans to the Mississippi river and arrive in Louisiana.
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Where was Hernando De Soto from?
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Spain
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What was De Soto looking for?
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Gold
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Did De Soto ever find Gold?
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No
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Who claimed the Land for France and gave it the name of Louisiana?
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Robert La Salle
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Why did the French King send other explorers to Louisiana to start settlement?
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The French Kind did not want England and Spain to get control of Louisiana.
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True or False and Why? Louisiana became a colony of England.
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False
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What is a Colony?
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A place ruled by another country
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___________ are people who live in a colony.
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Colonists
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How did early colonist protect themselves from attacks by Native Americans and other Europeans?
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They built Forts to protect themselves
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What is the name of the oldest permanent settlement in Louisiana?
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Natchitoches
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____________ is a system in which people are owned by other people and forced to work.
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Slavery
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Where did most slaves come from?
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Africa
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How did slaves get to Louisiana?
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They were taken from their homes and forced to come here.
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Where were slaves forced to work?
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Plantations
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A _________ is a large farm where crops such as sugarcane and cotton are grown.
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Plantation
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Why did plantation owners want more slaves?
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Plantations continued to grow and it caused the owners to want more slaves to work in the plantation
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Why did the French want to build a port on the Mississippi river?
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To make shipping of their goods easier
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What did the French colonists built on the Mississippi river?
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The city of New Orleans
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Bernardo de Galvez was a __________________ of Louisiana
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Spanish Governor
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How did Galvez help the American colonies?
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He helped them win their freedom from Britain during the American Revolution
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What city was named in honor of Galvez?
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The City of Galveston in Texas
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_______________ are Louisianans whose relatives came here from Acadia.
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Cajuns
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True or False: Cajuns mixed their customs with those others in Louisiana
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True
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