Social Studies 7th Grade - Unit 2 Chapter 2

What happened to the Spanish fort at Baton Rouge?

Select the two correct answers

• American settlers revolted and overthrew the Spanish.

• It was destroyed during an uprising led by Charles Deslondes

• The United States annexed the region where it was located.

• It was sold to the United States as part of the Louisiana Purchase.

• It was incorporated into the Neutral Ground between the United States and New Spain.

What geographical feature was used as the boundary between New Spain and the Neutral Ground?

• the Sabine River

• the Arroyo Hondo

• the Gulf of Mexico

• the Mississippi River

Why was the Louisiana Constitution of 1812 published in English and French?

• to address shared U.S. and French control of the territory

• to honor the anniversary of the Louisiana Purchase

• to reflect the territory’s European heritage

• to meet U.S. requirements for statehood

Sect. 8th. In all elections for Representatives every free white male citizen of the United States, who at the time being, hath attained to the age of twenty one years and resided in the county in which he offers to vote one year not preceding the election, and who in the last six months prior to the said election, shall have paid a state tax, shall enjoy the right of an elector: provided however that every free white male citizen of the United States who shall have purchased land from the United States, shall have the right of voting whenever he shall have the other qualifications of age and residence above prescribed—Electors shall in all cases, except treason, felony, breach of surety of peace, be privileged from arrest during their attendance at, going to or returning from elections.

Based on the excerpt, which of the following people could vote in the state of Louisiana?

• a white man who owned a small farm

• a white woman who owned a plantation

• a white man who had lived in Louisiana for three months

• a free person of color who owned an office building

What do the divisions on this map represent?

• the original Louisiana parishes

• the modern Louisiana parishes

• the original Louisiana counties

• the modern Louisiana counties

How did Louisiana’s colonial government influence its state government?

• Its governors were required to be Creole until Louisiana achieved statehood.

• Its civil law system was merged with the common law system of the United States.

• Its legal documents, including its state constitution, were required to be in French.

• Its state legislature was modeled on Spain’s government rather than the United States’.

Who was W. C. C. Claiborne?

• a pirate who fought in the War of 1812

• the first governor of Louisiana after it joined the United States

• the leader of an uprising of enslaved people

• the Louisiana delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives

At which point on the timeline would the creation of the Neutral Ground be placed?

• A

• B

• C

• D

Which of the following statements describe Julien de Lallande Poydras’s role in Louisiana history?

Select the two correct answers.

• He was the first governor of the state of Louisiana.

• He led Louisiana’s first constitutional convention.

• He negotiated Louisiana’s admission to the United States.

• He served as president of the legislative council of Orleans Territory.

• He determined the border between Orleans Territory and the District of Louisiana.

And I do hereby exhort and enjoin all the inhabitants and other persons within the said Province, to be faithful and true in their allegiance to the United States, and obedient to the laws and authorities of the same, under full assurance that their just rights will be under the guardianship of the United States, and will be maintained from all force or violence from without or within.

What did this proclamation promise the people of Louisiana in exchange for their allegiance to the United States?

• payment under the law

• protection of their rights

• guardianship of their land

• protection from authorities