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Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Acadian | a French speaking Catholic colonist who came from Acadia |
| Appeal | an attempt to have a legal decision overturned by higher court |
| Arbitrator | a nuetral party used to settle a dispute between two or more parties |
| Assimulate | to make similar or blend |
| Brule | an old Spanish dialect |
| Cabildo | Spanish city government for New Orleans |
| Cajun | nickname for Acadian |
| Exile | the condition of being forced to live away from one's native country |
| Floating Warehouses | large English trading vessel on the Miss River |
| foriegn French | a term used to distinguish new settlers from the creoles |
| intendant | Spanish officials in charge of the economics of colony |
| Isleno | Spanish settler from Canary Islands |
| Kaintock | Creole term for an American from Kentucky |
| Le Grand Derangement | the deportation of Canadians from their homelands |
| manumission | legal document the proves a slave is free |
| mestizo | a person of mixed descent- part Spanish part Native |
| O'Rielly Code | Spanish Colonial law |
| parish | a geographical division used by catholics for religous and political reasons |
| right of deposit | Americans store their products tax free in the Spanish warehouses |