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2. merchant: a business person engaged in retail trade cupboard: a small room or cabinet used for storage space gumbo: a soup thickened with okra pods or file that is a mixture of meat or seafood and vegetables. carpenter: a woodworker who makes or repairs wooden objects mortar and pestle: shutters: movable covers for a window, usually a pair of them moccasin: a soft leather shoe or sandal without a heel chandelier: branched lighting fixture; often ornate; hangs from the ceiling loft: floor consisting of open space at the top of a house just below roof; often used for storage. lard: soft white semisolid fat obtained by rendering the fatty tissue of the hog. plaster: a wet mixture that is spread on walls and ceilings whitewash: a mixture or lime and water painted on walls of fences to whiten them. shingles: building material used as siding or roofing license: a legal document giving official permission to do something luxuries: something that is an indulgence rather than a necessity mortar and pestle: a container and club shaped tool used for grinding or pounding medicines.

3. Red, white, and black settlers lived together. The French settlements were very different from American settlements.

4. FRENCH SETTLEMENTS OTHER EUROPEAN SETTLEMENTS Mixed their homes, stores, and public buildings throughout their villages. French merchants used their homes as their place of business. Did not build their houses close to together, they surrounded their homes with slave cabins, barns, stables, gardens, and orchards. Built fences around their houses. Vertical log cabins Put stores and shops in a business district. Built their homes in another part of town. Horizontal log cabins

5. Painted the walls with whitewash One story Steep grass roofs (early) Wooded shingle roofs Porches (galleries) protected the plaster walls Shaded the house Wooden shutters Fireplaces Mostly one room with dirt floors

6. Rear of the Bolduc House fireplace Steep shingled roof Kitchen building Porch (Galleria) Garden porch

7. 1 of every three people living in French settlements at St. Genevieve and St. Louis was an African America. Most of them were slaves. Not all of them were slaves. Some had been set free by their masters for their years of hard work. Some had saved money and bought their freedom. Free black men worked as hunters, rowers, craftsmen, and farmers. Free black women worded as housekeepers and servants. Free blacks could own property Slave primary sourceSlave primary source Analysis SheetAnalysis Sheet

8. The French got along well with the Native Americans. They sold them guns and other goods Many traders had Indian wives. Louis Lorimier was a famous trader, his father was a Frenchman, and his mother a Native American. He founded the town on Cape Girardeau. He married an Shawnee Indian woman. The French often wore moccasins and leather pants

9. FARMING FUR TRADING AND LEAD MINING Farms were owned by the whole village, it was called the common field. Each family received a strip of land in it. They raised wheat, corn, cotton, flax, hemp, and tobacco. Fur traders traveled up the Mississippi and the Missouri Ricers in small boats and canoes. St. Louis became an important place for selling furs. Phillippe Renault ran the lead mines near Ste. Genevieve

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