... with the Native Americans, who they introduced many new technologies and tools to. The French government decided that Catholicism would be the official religion of the colonies and so they banned Protestants from the settlement. Other explorers began to move south. Sieur de La Salle took many settlers as for south as the Gulf of Mexico, all along the route claiming ... France. By the time he had completed his exploration, nearly the entire interior of the country had been claimed for France. The first English settlement, Jamestown, was founded in1607, although John Cabot had sailed to N...

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... the united States expansion plans. In the 1830's Texas was still within Mexican borders. Eager for economic growth, the mexican government encouraged US citizens to come and settle. Since mexico banned slavery, most settlers were not happy with this policy and tried to form stronger bonds with the us government than with the mexican government. Arguments anfd fights arose because of ... claimed that the Texas border was at the Rio Grande. Mexico said that the border was at the Nueces river. The US tried to settle matters diplomatically so they inexperienced John Slidell. Slidell tried t...

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