French immigrants came in from Francophone ________ like San Domingue.

Only a few years before, he had rejected a proposal for a national bank by _______ that the Constitution didn't empower the US. government to create such an institution.

By October 4, the smoke was so thick on Green Bay that ships had to use their foghorns and ______ by compass.

Many separate fires ______ in the humus of the forest floor.

As a further _______ of the territory's past governments, the Louisiana State Legislature met in the former palace of the Spanish governors,

At least the smoke had greatly reduced the mosquito population had been _______ to the respectable citizens.

The settlements in the area were becoming increasingly _______ from both the outside world and one another.

0n September 30 the Marinette reported hopefully that "the fires have nearly _______ now in this vicinity."

The winds circling it would turn the smoldering forest of northeastern Wisconsin into ______ on earth.

In what might _______ readers today as a particularly chilling reminder of the city's previous masters, two pillories stood on Chartres Street.

Captain Amos Stoddard, a New Englander became one of the _______ of the new lands.

Smoke sometimes ______ the sun, which was often visible only at midday.

Slavery was not the only _______ of life in New Orleans that would have been unfamiliar to men like Captain Amos Stoddard.