The Isle of Orleans
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Greg English www.louisiana101.com 1800s Louisiana History |
This worksheet gives the students a chance to recreate the Isle of Orleans and
discover just what the “Isle” meant, how much it covered and just what the
president sent his men to buy from Napoleon.
Have students research the map above and other state maps to create the Isle,
color it in, and label all areas in and around the Isle. Have them label, New
Orleans, the Mississippi, Amite River, Bayou Manchac, Lake Borgne, Lake Maurepas,
Chandeleur Bay, Benton Sound, the Gulf of Mexico, the Delta, Lake Pontchartrain,
and Pass Manchac. Now color in only the “Isle”, the area of New Orleans surround
by water ( the area surrounded by the Mississippi, Lake Pontchartrain, Lake
Maurepas, Pass Manchac, Bayou Manchac, and the Gulf of Mexico)
