" The aforementioned O'Reilly passed laws allowing manumission in this colony, replacing precedent from the "Black Code" that governed it.
Settlers of this colony frequently married women who were nicknamed for the small chests in which they carried their clothes, the "casket girls." German settlers of this colony, who revolted to prevent its turnover to forces led by Alejandro O'Reilly after the Seven Years' War, lent their name to its "German Coast." The aforementioned O'Reilly passed laws allowing manumission in this colony, replacing precedent from the "Black Code" that governed it. Missionaries from this colony founded a school for natives at the "Grand Village" in (*) Kaskasia. It was the place of operations for a company that was financed by paper money from the "General Private Bank" later seized by Philippe, Duc D'Orleans. This colony was returned to its founder by terms of the Third Treaty of San Ildefonso, but sold three years later at the price of fifteen million dollars to finance the Napoleonic Wars. For 10 points, the size of the U.S. doubled after what colony's purchase by Thomas Jefferson?
Settlers of this colony frequently married women who were nicknamed for the small chests in which they carried their clothes, the "casket girls."
(French) Louisiana [prompt on New France]