Spanish Louisiana Study Guide

****Also study your Spanish leader report cards. You need to know the major events of each governor****

  1. Spain received Louisiana from France in the Treaty of Fontainebleau.
  2. The colonists did not like Ulloa because his personality conflicted with theirs, he never held a formal ceremony to make Louisiana Spanish, he allowed the French to still run the colony---this made him appear weak, he married a woman from Peru but the colonist thought she was African so they claimed he was breaking the Code Noir, he only allowed the Creoles to trade with the Spanish
  3. The Creole Revolution was a result of Ulloa’s leadership style.
  4. The Creole Revolution was when mobs of creoles disabled the cannons protecting New Orleans. The next day 400 Creoles stormed the city and ordered Ulloa to leave. 5 days later Ulloa left for Cuba and without war the Creoles had forced the Spanish out.
  5. O’Reilly was called Bloody O’Reilly because he arrested the men who planned the Creole Revolution and killed some of the guilty by a firing squad.
  6. The Cabildo is a building in New Orleans where the city council met.
  7. O’Reilly created 12 parishes as geographical divisions of the Catholic Church with a priest leading each parish.
  8. Manumission papers were papers freed people of color had to carry with them to prove they were freed.
  9. An arbitrator was a neutral party used when slave owners and slaves could not agree on a price for slaves to buy their own freedom.
  10. Ways the Spanish increased rights for slaves: slaves could testify in court, slaves received 30 minute lunch breaks / 2 hour dinner breaks, slaves could be freed at will without government approval, and slaves could buy their own freedom.
  11. Unzaga helped the American colonists by selling gun powder to the American colonists through Oliver Pollock.
  12. The English traded on floating warehouses.
  13. Galvez helped the American colonists by continuing to work with Pollock to get supplies (medicine, clothing, weapons, etc.) to the American Colonists.
  14. Spain and France sided with the Americans during the American Revolution.
  15. Governor Miro’s biggest achievement was more settlers came to Louisiana under Miro than any other governor.
  16. The Kaintocks were rough frontiersmen who caused trouble in the colony. They lived in what is now Kentucky.
  17. A land grant was a parcel of land promised to each family who would settle in Louisiana. The government also provided tools, a rooster, two hens, two pigs, and supplies for a year.
  18. The Isleños came to Louisiana from the Canary Islands because life was very difficult. They were hunters and traders. They settled in St. Bernard, Ascension and Plaquemines parishes.
  19. The English forced the Acadians to leave Nova Scotia because they were concerned that the Acadian might rebel because they were not happy that England owned Acadia.
  20. The Spanish invited the Acadians to Louisiana because they were trying to populate Louisiana. They thought the Acadians would be a good fit because they were accustomed to farming and trapping and would fit easily into Louisiana’s French culture. Most Acadians settled in the parishes in southwest Louisiana and along Bayou Teche.
  21. A Cajun is technically someone who is descended from the Acadians in Canada.
  22. The French Quarter is not really French because it was rebuilt using Spanish Architecture after the two French Quarter fires and hurricanes destroyed the French Quarter in the late 1700s.
  23. After the French Quarter fires, Carondelet ordered that all buildings over one story must be built using bricks.
  24. Carondelet signed the Treaty of San Lorenzo with the U.S. to avoid war. The treaty set an official northern boundary for West Florida, reopened the Mississippi river to American trade, and the U.S. received the Right of Deposit in New Orleans for 3 years.
  25. The Right of Deposit was when Spain allowed the Americans to use Spanish warehouses in New Orleans and store their goods tax free.
  26. The Point Coupee slave rebellion occurred after Carondelet encouraged slaves to make complaints about cruel owners at the governor’s office. Slaves around Pointe Coupée began planning a rebellion but they were arrested before it began. Twenty-three slaves were hanged, and 31 others were flogged so severely that only four survived. Slave owners blamed the slave rebellion on Carondelet’s lenient slave policy.
  27. The Foreign French were the French who came to Louisiana to escape the French Revolution.
  28. Napoleon wanted Louisiana back because he dreamed of building a French empire in North America. Napoleon forced Spain to give Louisiana back to France in the secret Treaty of San Ildefonso. Spain’s military was too weak to challenge Napoleon.
  29. Jefferson was concerned about Napoleon because rumors were circulating that France wanted to attack the U.S.
  30. Jefferson sent Robert Livingston and James Monroe to buy Louisiana. They spent $15 million. The U.S. borrowed money from England to buy Louisiana. This is ironic because France was at war with England at this time and Napoleon agreed to sell Louisiana to the United States to help fund his war with England.
  31. Napoleon decided to sell Louisiana because he was desperate for money to fight a war with England. Also, he planned to use Louisiana to supply food to Saint-Domingue, but he lost Saint-Domingue after a slave rebellion.
  32. Jefferson sent Lewis and Clark to explore the Louisiana Purchase.
  33. How did the Louisiana purchase change the United States?
  34. The Louisiana purchase almost doubled the size of the U.S.
  35. Assimilating means to blend. After the Louisiana Purchase the foreign colonists in Louisiana had to blend into the United States.
  36. Louisiana had “Three Flags in Three Weeks”. In a three week time span Louisiana went from belonging to the Spanish to the French to the U.S.