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=French Colony ; Louisiana, //" New France "//= By, Rebecca Mitchell.




 * ==﻿﻿Crown (1699-1712)==
 * ==France 1699-1731 Proprietary 1712-1731==
 * ==Crown (1731-1769)==
 * ==Spain 1769-1803 Crown (1769-1803)==
 * ==France (1803) Republic (1803)==

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 * The many ethnic groups in colonial Louisiana were people of French, Canadian, Spanish, Latin American, Anglo, German, and African descent. People were brought to Louisiana by force, the promise of prosperity, or they volunteered. Louisiana was ignored for nearly a century and a half, until France's King Louis XIV, the "Sun King," began encouraging exploration of the Mississippi River in order to enlarge his own empire and stop Britain's and Spain's expansion. The area was named in honor of Louis XIV. Louisiana was divided into two regions. Upper Lousiana, which began north of the Arkansas River. French: Basse-Louisiana, the Lower Louisiana. The present state of Louisiana is named for the historical region, now it occupies only a small part of the territory claimed by the French. **



==Louisiana included most of the Mississippi River Valley, from what is now the Midwestern United States south to the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. Demarcating the exact territory is difficult as it did not have formal, defined borders in the modern sense. Only two areas saw substantial with in the vast territory. ==

=Upper Louisiana, also known as the Illinois Country, comprised territory in the upper Mississippi River Valley, including settlements and fortifications in what are now the states of Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana. "By the 1720s a formal government infrastructure had formed; leaders of the towns reported to the commandant of Fort de Chartres, who in turn reported to the governor general of Louisiana in New Orleans." "During the French and Indian (the Seven Years' War), the British occupied the portion of Upper Louisiana east of the Mississippi."=



==Following their defeat in the war the French ceded the area, which became known as the Northwest Territory, as well as all of Louisiana east of the river, to Britain in the Treaty of Paris. As a result many of the French settlers in the region relocated to the west side of the Mississippi.==



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