An overview
The history of the present US state of Louisiana started about a thousand years ago when the indigenous people of the area inhabited it. The first permanent settlement is reported back to the archaic period,5500 years ago.
People started inhabiting the Mississippi region around 800 ad, referred to as the woodland period.
Other civilizations emerging around the same time included the Marksville and the tchefuncte cultures, which were ancestors of the people of Natchez and taensa. Thousands of refugees arrived in Louisiana from the saint Dominican regions during the Haitian revolution of the 1790s. These emigrants included creoles and enslaved people. Some refugees migrated to Cuba but were expelled and came to Louisiana around 1809.
The united states won the battle of New Orleans against Europe, and Louisiana officially became the 18th state of the US ON 30th April 1812. However, the western Louisiana regions were in constant disputes with the Spanish texas till the ratification of the adam onis treaty of 1819.
The port of New Orleans
The first half of the 19th century turned out to be the golden period for New Orleans. It was the biggest port city in the US. The primary product of the united states, cotton, was exported and imported through this port. The port of New Orleans had earned a total revenue of more than 54 million through trade in 1835. around 400 steamboats were traveling across the Mississippi river. By 1840, New Orleans had become one of the wealthiest cities in the US.
