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Louisiana (French: Louisiane) or French Louisiana [6] (Louisiane française) was an administrative district of New France.In 1682 the French explorer René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la Salle erected a cross near the mouth of the Mississippi River and claimed the whole of the drainage basin of the Mississippi River in the name of King Louis XIV, naming it "Louisiana".
Antebellum Louisiana was a leading slave state, where by 1860, 47% of the population was enslaved. Louisiana seceded from the Union on January 26, 1861, joining the Confederate States of America. New Orleans, the largest city in the entire South at the time, and strategically important port city, was taken by Union troops on April 25, 1862.
On April 30, 1812, President James Madison admitted Louisiana to the union as the 18th state, but not until a few weeks later, on June 4th, was Missouri Territory created out of what had been Louisiana Territory. For just over a month, both a Territory of Louisiana and a State of Louisiana existed.
At its creation, the state of Louisiana did not include the area north and east of the Mississippi River known as the Florida Parishes. On April 14, 1812, Congress had authorized Louisiana to expand its borders to include the Florida Parishes, [ 85 ] [ 86 ] but the border change required approval of the state legislature, which it did not give until August 4. [ 87 ]
It is only in 1682 that the French took possession of what would become the huge Louisiana territory, over which their influence lasted for more than a century. The 1803 Louisiana Purchase Treaty between France and the United States ended for ever Colonial French Louisiana. Today, behind any existing names of French origins, historical traces ...
In 1639, the colony adopted the name “Connecticut” when it formed its first constitution, the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut. On January 9, 1788, Connecticut became the fifth state of the United States. Delaware. Delaware got its name from Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, an English nobleman and colonial leader.
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