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8th grade SS Chapt 6
Chapter 6 SS Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Bousillage | A mixture of mud,deer hair, and moss used as a wall plaster |
| Casket girls (filles a la casette) | 88 young girls of marriage able age who were sent from France to become brides for colonists, escorted by Ursuline nuns |
| Code noir | A set of laws that regulated the behavior of slaves and the rules for their masters |
| Commandment | Officer in command |
| Commissary-commisioner | Business manager |
| Concession | Grants of land |
| Coureurs de bois (wood runners) | Hunters and trappers who were not offical settlers in New France (Canada) |
| Engage | Indentured servants |
| Forcats | prisoners who were forced to live in Louisiana |
| Indigo | Plant that is used to make blue dye |
| Joint-stock company | An early form of a corporation in which many people invested by buying stock |
| Long lot system | Dividing land along the river so that each property owner had lad that was only a few hundred feet along the river bank, but as much as a mile inland |
| Mania | Excessive enthusiasm |
| Mississippi bubble | The expansion, then collapse, of the company that invested in the Louisiana colony |
| Morality | Death |
| Pelicans girls | A group of 23 young womenwho volunteered to come to come Louisiana to marry the coureurs de bois |
| Place d'armes | City square in New Orleans now known as Jackson Square |
| Proprietorship | The system of letting an induvidual businessman Take controlof the colony in the hopes that he could make it profitable |
| Poteau-en-terre | Litteraly means posts in the ground;a Frensh style of construction in which sticks were horizontally between posts, then covered with bousillage and whitewashed |
| Tenure | Term of office |
| Rogue | Way ward or unlawful |
| Viceroy | Govenor of a country or province who represents the king |
| Vieux carre | The old square in new Orleans noe known as the French Quarter |
| Voodoo | A religion originating in Africa based on charms potions spells and curses and was often disguised with Catholic symbolism |
| Voyageurs | Hunters and trappers who legally regustered with French officals in Canada |
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