C1 Reading and Use of English Part 1 (Game 5)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The fires seemed to wax and wane, _______ on the wind and chance.

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.

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

French immigrants came in from Francophone ________ like San Domingue.

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

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

New Orleans still _________ in some forms, its odd cultural mix to this day.

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