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| colony | a group of people who settle in a distant land but who still keep their ties to their native land |
| proprietorship | a system that gave an individual a charter (or contract) to operate a colony as a business |
| Superior Council | a group existing during the French colonial period that was in charge of judicial matters and was presided over by the commissary commissioner |
| land grant | a parcel of land given to the directors of the Company of the West under the condition that they bring settlers to the colony |
| Missouri Compromise | the 1820 agreement by Congress that Missouri would enter the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state and slavery would not be allowed in any states formed north of a line even with Missouri’s southern border |
| slave | a person who is bound to a life of service to others and who is considered property |
| plantation | a large estate or farm |
| Code Noir | a set of laws governing the conduct of the slaves during the French colonial period |
| casket girls | young women who came to Louisiana in 1728 to become wives of the settlers; the young women brought their trousseaus in a casket, or barrel-like chest |
