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The Acadians - British Canadians -were the first Europeans to settle in Louisiana. True False​

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False

Step-by-step explanation:

Acadians were the colonizers of Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. They did not colonize Louisiana.

Louisiana was first explored by the Spanish, but it only began to be colonized by the French around 100 years later, in and around the Louisiana bayou where the French founded the city of New Orleans and a few other towns.

This is why some form of creole French is still spoken by a few people in this region, and why the state of Louisiana keeps some French traditions, like for example, having the equivalent of counties named as "parishes".

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