René-Robert Cavelier<span>, </span>Sieur de La Salle<span> claimed the territory of lousisianna and named it after the king</span>
This was important to the African Americans because they had huge dilemmas associated with segregation and mostly discrimination. They weren't able to vote but the poll tax wasn't expensive at all which was enough to stop the poor - both white and black- from voting.
He wanted to make lutheranism the more “major” religion
