The paper's editor, was ______ by the burning of the telegraph line.

Thomas Jefferson, the American President, purchased Louisiana and brought about the _______ of control that occurred on December 20.

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

0n September 30, flames came within three miles of the town of Green Bay, _________, 1,200 cords of wood stored at a charcoal kiln.

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

French immigrants came in from Francophone ________ like San Domingue.

Stoddard might have been ________ by the odd cultural mix that New Orleans represented.

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

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,

The Louisiana Purchase opened a new ________ in American history and closed the old one.

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

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.