Slide bianca: 1,2,3,4,10,11,15,16,18,19

Slide gaia: 5,6,7,8,9,12,13,14,17,20

The Mississippi river is the 2nd major river in the us, afret the Missuori. Mississippi, once home to a greater
variety of indigenous tribes than any other southeastern state. Top economic industries in Mississippi today
are agriculture and forestry. Mississippi produces more than half of the country's farm-raised catfish.

 Flora and Fauna

The floodplain forest consists mostly of trees and is long almost half the river........

In the mississippi river there are 63 spieces of mussles, 57 spieces of crabs and 5 spieces of lamprey,
without counting the fauna outside of the river, that changes in the 3.766 km of it length.

 Louisiana history

French colony: France controlled Louisiana from 1682 to 1769, the original name of this country was ‘La
Louisiane’. It was the administrative district of New France (area colonized by the French in North America)

It originally covered an expansive territory that included a part of the Mississippi river and stretched from
the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico and from the Appalachian Mountains to the Rocky Mountains.

Spanish colony: Spain controlled Louisiana from 1762 to 1801, the original name of the country was ‘La
Luisiana’. Spain secretly acquired the territory from France near the end of the Seven Years' War by the
terms of the Treaty of Fontainebleau.

On 30 April 1812 Louisiana enters in the United States of America as the 18th state.

In Louisiana there are a lot of black people, the reason is that in 1719 North America was colonized by the
European countries that used the black people for hard works for example: cotton plantations, after the
civil war the black people didn’t work so hard anymore but they remained in USA with their families.

 New Orleans history

New Orleans was the capital of the French Colony that now we call Louisiana, the original name was:
Nouvelle-Orléans.

The Battle of New Orleans was fought on January 8, 1815, between British troops led by General Edward
Pakenham and American forces led by General Andrew Jackson. Despite being outnumbered 2:1, the
Americans, who had constructed sophisticated earthworks, won a decisive victory against the British
assault.

In New Orleans there are a lot of black people, the reason is that in 1719 North America was colonized by
the European countries that used the black people for hard works for example: cotton plantations, after the
civil war the black people didn’t work so hard anymore but they remained in USA with their families.

 Population

In New Orleans, like Gaia just said, was affected a lot by black people, and so the population is mixed.
the population of new orlenas is of 391.249 people.

 Climate in New Orleans

A climate that is warm and wet.

Hot wet summers

Mild winters

 Biomes

Tropical Forest: is dominated by broad-leaved trees that form a dense upper canopy (layer of foliage) and
contain a diverse array of vegetation and other life.

Woodland: Woodlands are dry and open mixed forest ecosystems that occur on rocky outcrops where
there are quickly drained, shallow, nutrient-poor soils.

 Music in New Orleans

Jazz: Jazz is a byproduct of the unique cultural environment found in New Orleans at the late 19th and early
20th centuries, with the vestiges of French and Spanish colonial roots, the resilience of African influences
after the slavery era and the influx of immigrants from Europe.

 Natural landmarks

Bretchel park: Brechtel Park is a 120-acre urban park in the Algiers neighborhood of New Orleans. The park
was founded in 1971 using funds from the Federal Land and Water Conservation Fund and is maintained by
the New Orleans Department of Parks and Parkways. Brechtel is a stop on the Barataria Loop of America’s
Wetlands Birding Trail.

Mississippi river:

 Manmade landmarks

Joan of arc staute:

Bourbon street:

 The princess and the frog

A Disney movie made in 2009. Set in New Orleans, the first black princess: black because most of the
population is black (slavery). The soundtrack is all jazz music and the drawings of the city respects the
tradition.