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Louisiana History Midterm Study Guide
Directions: Answer each question on loose-leaf paper.
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What are imaginary lines that run north to south on the globe called?
What are imaginary lines that run east to west on the globe called?
What is the largest natural lake in Louisiana?
What type of location uses latitude and longitude?
What type of location uses other places to describe where it’s located?
What word can be defined as the current conditions of the atmosphere?
What word can be defined as the conditions of the atmosphere over a long period of time?
What word can be defined as the physical features of the land?
What do you call a winding curve or bend of a river?
What is the largest natural lake in Louisiana?
What happens when rivers seek shorter, straighter courses, and the bends in the river become lakes?
What forms at the mouth of a river, where the river flows into an ocean, sea, estuary, lake, or reservoir?
What is the highest point in Louisiana?
What type of climate does Louisiana have?
What river forms Louisiana’s western border?
What rivers form Louisiana’s eastern borders?
What are the effects of coastal erosion on Louisiana’s wetlands?
Compare weather and climate.
What is culture?
What is an area defined by similar features, such as climate, landforms, and economic or recreational opportunities?
What is cultural diffusion?
What were blacks who were free during the time of slavery referred to as?
What are the elements of culture?
Which cultural region’s urban centers include Houma, Lafayette, Morgan City, and Thibodaux and contains both
prairie and wetland culture?
Which cultural region’s urban center is Alexandria-Pineville and has weathered barns that symbolize rural roots of
the people in that region?
Which cultural region is located in northern Louisiana, contains lakes, rolling hills, and forests, and includes the cities
Shreveport and Bossier City.
Which cultural region has Baton Rouge as the urban center and is symbolized by Spanish moss?
Which cultural region includes the largest city in Louisiana, and a busy port on the Mississippi River?
Where were African Americans brought to Louisiana from?
What ethnic group was forced out of Nova Scotia by the English, and is responsible for much of the Cajun culture in
Louisiana?
Which ethnic group settled in St. Charles Parish and Acadia Parish?
Which ethnic group originated in the Canary Islands?
What historical leader led the Americans to a lopsided victory over the British in the Battle of New Orleans?
Who was commissioned to fortify the mouth of the Mississippi in order to secure the claim made on Louisiana?
Who was the founder of New Orleans?
Who was the French explorer who was sent by King Louis XIV to travel down the Mississippi River to the Gulf of
Mexico?
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Which Native American group was nomadic, but stayed in one place longer than the Paleo Indians?
Which Native American group ate wild grapes, palmetto, fruits, fish, and hunted deer?
Which Native American group built permanent homes of wattle and daub?
Which Native American group invented a tool that added weights to a throwing stick, called an atlatl?
Which Native American group made elaborate ornaments like copper ear spools and bracelet beads?
Which Native American group hunted small animals like deer, rabbits, raccoons, and squirrels?
Which Native American group ate a wide variety of plants and animals, including mastodons?
Which Native American group developed the bow and arrow around 500 A.D.?
What term refers to a group of people that moves from one place to another?
Which Historic Indian tribe had a ruler known as the Great Sun?
In which Historic Indian tribe can women hold political power?
What term refers to people who settle in one place?
What motivated Europeans to travel west?
Which Historic Indian tribe supported the French in the French and Indian War?
Which Historic Indian tribe consisted of flesh eaters who believed they could absorb the powers of their enemies?
What was the name of the treaty that divided the “uncivilized world”?
What marked the beginning of the Historic Indian Era?
Who signed a contract to operate Louisiana as a business?
Who protected Louisiana for France with his older brother and became the first governor of the state?
Who head the Company of the West, organized the Bank of France and developed the paper money system for
France?
Who was a governor that was nicknamed “the Grand Marquis”; was peaceful with Indians; brought the first Mardi
Gras ball to Louisiana?
Who sailed down the Mississippi with LaSalle and was given the name “Iron Hand” by natives?
Who was the first governor during the proprietor phase of the colony?
Who asserted the power of Spain by punishing the colonists that rebelled against the Spanish rule of Louisiana?
Who the first Spanish governor of Louisiana?
Who overlooked Spanish trade laws and allowed the British merchants to set up shop in New Orleans?
Who was governor during the American Revolution?
Who had to deal with problems caused by American Revolution and Good Friday Fire?
Who was the last Spanish governor of Louisiana?
Who was the first successful sugar producer?
What is the present-day location of the first French fort?
Why did Spain agree to enter the French and Indian War?
What is the name of the treaty that divided the entire North American continent amongst Spain, Great Britain, and
France?
What was the name of the event that caused damage to the majority of New Orleans while it was under Spanish
rule?
What was the name given to the set of laws established by Bienville to govern the conduct of slaves?
What is the name of the treaty that gave Americans free navigation of the river and also set the boundary between
the United States and the Spanish territory at the 31st parallel?
What was the name given to the collapse of the French investment company?
Which Spanish Louisiana governor attacked and defeated British forces along the Mississippi River and the Gulf of
Mexico?
What document transferred French Louisiana to Spanish rule?