Essay question (50 points): How did Native Americans, Spanish and French explore

Essay question (50 points): How did Native Americans, Spanish and French explorers, Africans (slave & free), French and Spanish governors, the Creole (keep in mind the different definitions of), Cajuns, and English settlers each shape the development of Louisiana by the conclusion of French rule in 1803?
Essay Length (800-1000 words)
Format:  Your essay should have at least five (5) paragraphs.  The first paragraph should be an introduction and the last paragraph should be a conclusion.
Thesis:  Your essay should have a thesis statement.  A thesis statement is a single sentence that directly answers the question above.
Location of Thesis:  The thesis statement should come as the last sentence of your introductory paragraph.
Balance:  Be sure to take into account different events and people (name names).
Support:  Your essay should provide examples that support your thesis.  Examples of support to include in your essay are names, dates, key events, groups, and ideas.  These examples should be drawn from readings in your Jones text.
Also, your essay should use as examples information from the assignments found on our course Moodle.
In addition, You should include people such as LaSalle & O’Reily, the dates for the French & Spanish periods, groups such as the Africans (slave and free), Creole, Cajuns (Acadians), and Native Americans.
Chronology:  Generally speaking, your essay after the introduction should begin by discussing events earlier in time and then move forward to later events.  Don’t simply randomly and without a thematic purpose place events and people into the essay out of order in terms of chronology.  For example, don’t begin your essay’s second paragraph with a discussion of Thomas Jefferson and Louisiana and then in the third paragraph begin discussing the earlier prehistoric Poverty Point settlement.
Grammar:  Correct grammar and spelling must be used throughout your essay; do not use slang or text language.  Do not use vulgar language.
Plagiarism:  Your essay must be your own work;  do not collaborate in writing your essay; do not cut and paste material from the internet or any other source.  Use your own words in your essay.  Simply changing a few words in a sentence found in Jones and pasting into an essay is not using your own words.  Review Syllabus concerning plagiarism.
Plagiarized essays may receive a zero (0).
Sources:  Use as your source the Jones text on our course Moodle.
As this is not a research assignment, sources from outside our course Moodle are not necessary and should not be used.
This means that we do not use Wikipedia as a source and we do not .com sites as sources.
Use of Wikipedia or .com sites may result in a zero (0).
We have plenty of material assigned from Jones and on our course Moodle or linked to from our course Moodle for use in an essay.
In your essay, do not quote.  Do not copy parts of sentences or whole sentences and use these words in your essay.
Citing sources:  Even though we are not quoting and we are using our own words, sources of information still need to be identified.
All sources of information used in the essay must be properly cited.
When using the Jones text, simply state Jones, chapter title, and single page number.
For example:  (Jones, The French Period, p. 27).
Do Not list your citations at the end of your essay.
Place a source citation at the end of a sentence, indicating the source of your information for that sentence.
Failure to cite the Jones text may result in a zero (0).
If using another source from our course Moodle, be sure to cite that source.
Given the nature of our question for Essay #1, some of the particular examples listed below should be used in your essay. 
You do not need to mention every term, but do need to develop an essay that illustrates generalizations with particular examples.
Terms
Pearl River
Sabine River
Mississippi River
Red River
Gulf of Mexico
Subtropical Climate
Ice Age
Big Game Hunters
Paleo Period (c. 10000-6000 B.C.)
Archaic Period (c. 6000-2000 B.C.)
Hunter gathers
Watson Brake (c. 3500 B.C.)
Neo Period (c. 2000 B.C.-1492 A.D.)
Poverty Point (c. 2000-750 B.C.)
“Bird Mound”
Poverty Point Objects (PPOs)
female figurines
atlatl
Tchefuncte Culture (c. 600 B.C.-200 A.D.)
shell midden
Marksville Culture (c. 200 B.C-400 A.D.)
Troyville-Coles Creek Culture (400-1100 A.D)
agriculture
bow and arrow
Plaquemine-Mississippian (1000-1500 A.D.)
Caddo (“Silver Water”) Culture (800 A.D.)
Attakapas
Chitimacha
Muskogean
Natchez
Tunica
animism
shamans
chiefdoms
De Soto
New Orleans
La Salle
Louisiane
Henri de Tonti
Iberville
Bienville
English Turn
Cadillac
Baton Rouge
Crozat
Natchitoches
St. Denis
Fort St. Jean Baptiste
Los Adaes
Fort Rosalie
Natchez
Casket girls
Correction girls
John Law
Louis Congo
Code Noir (French)
Natchez War, 1729-31
Chickasaw Wars, 1736-39, 1747-52
Vaudreuil
French & Indian War
Treaty of Paris of 1763
Creoles
Aubry
Antonio de Ulloa
Alejandro O’Reilly
Cabildo
Acadians (Cajuns)
Isleños
Étienne de Boré
Luis de Unzaga
Bernardo de Galvez
Don Juan Filhiol
Fort Miro
Napoleon
Resourses to use! only use these!!
https://www.dropbox.com/s/vgfbahcynit748u/UNIT_4_SPANISH-su18rev.pdf?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/rhgnnuxbqk7l717/UNIT_3_FRENCH-su18rev.pdf?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/rhgnnuxbqk7l717/UNIT_3_FRENCH-su18rev.pdf?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ycaeww3n1z3onbp/UNIT_I_GEOGRAPHY%20rev2021.pdf?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/kkdvj1wj319cqep/Unit_2_THE_FIRST_INHABITANTS-su18rev.pdf?dl=0