1. CROZAT

2. French king and his government could not afford to maintain Louisiana.
Why did King Louis XIV decide to allow a businessman to run the colony?
French king and his government could not afford to maintain Louisiana.
They needed a new way to fund the colony

3. What is the proprietor responsible for?
Almost total control of the colony
sending supplies and settlers to the colony regularly and the colonial government had to follow French law

4. Who would be the first proprietor?
Antoine Crozat

5. What did he expect to find in the colony?
Gold and Silver

6. Who would he select as governor?
Cadillac

7. State 3 "troubles" this new governor would have.
Refused to smoke the calumet
People didn’t like his rude personality
Had to face the ongoing conflicts among government officials

8. State 2 "positives" for this new governor.
established the Superior Council to help govern the colony
first official to suggest that indigo and tobacco should be grown to sell

9. The Company of the West

10. What did John Law create and for what purpose?
Company of the West to operate the Louisiana colony

11. What did he convince people of?
huge profit from the Louisiana colony

12. Who did Law choose to be governor of the colony?
Bienville

13. Why did people not want to come to Louisiana?
Peasants did not want to go because life in Louisiana did not sound any better than their lives in France

14. Who does John Law "target" in order to fill his requirement of sending settlers to the colony?
Germans

15. When no one volunteered, who was sent?
Prisoners
homeless people

16. Describe the colonists' complaints.
the Company never sent enough flour, fabric, wine, brandy, shirts, or shoes
cost four times as
Flour was usually bug infested.

17. Why would the company collapse?
could not pay back the investors

18. What was the crash called?
Mississippi Bubble