1. What was the main settlement of Spanish control in the area that later became Mississippi?
2. Dwellings from the Spanish period (late eighteenth century) still stand in Natchez (true/false).
3. What important trade item was produced principally by Native Americans?
4. To strengthen its claim on its new lands, the Spanish built five forts in the Lower Mississippi Valley. What are they?
5. What was the Spanish name for the treaty that relinquished Spain's control of the Natchez area?
6. France was the only European country to aid the colonies during the American Revolution (true/false).
7. DeSoto was the first European to encounter the Mississippi River (true/false).
8. What post commandant of Natchez established two parishes there in an effort to convert residents to Catholicism?
9. What Louisiana governor flamboyantly led ships into Pensacola Bay after its 1781 capture when his ship commanders feared grounding on sandbars and was honored by the addition of Yo Solo (I Alone) to his coat of arms?
10. What American surveyor marked the boundary between the United States and Spanish Florida after the Treaty of San Lorenzo?
1. Natchez. Next question
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2. True. They include Kings’ Tavern, Governor Holmes’s House, Texada, Hope Farm, Airlie, Richmond, and the Griffin McComas House. Next question
3. Deerskins. Next question
4. Fort Rosalie in Natchez, Nogales in present-day Vicksburg, San Fernando de las Barrancas in present-day Memphis, San Esteban (or Fort St. Steven) and Confederation on the Tombigbee River. Next question
5. The Treaty of San Lorenzo. The English name for it was Pinckney’s Treaty. Next question
6. False. Although not an official ally of the American colonies, Spain attacked British installations on the Gulf of Mexico, thereby diverting British forces from the main theater of the war. Next question
7. False. Two others — Alonzo de Pineda (1519) and Cabeza de Vaca (1520s-1530s) — saw the mouth of the Mississippi before DeSoto in the 1540s. Next question
8. Carlos de Grand Pre; his efforts towards conversion failed. Next question
9. Bernardo de Galvez. Next question
10. Andrew Ellicott, who placed the American flag at the site of the House on Ellicott’s Hill, Natchez. Top
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