... the French were able to set up trading posts, such as that run by Jacques Cartier, and live in peace 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 land for France. By the time he had completed his exploration, nearly the entire interior of the country had been claime...

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... way through Central America. The Spanish explored the New World in search of gold, glory, and god, they sent many different types of people to the new world, and they had an overall negative affect on the Indians. Spaniards were constantly in America spreading religion or seeking gold and glory. Spanish priests went into the New World on a missionary goal. In these missions the ... priests evangelized to the Natives. Here the Natives would learn of the catholic religion, the Spanish laws and lifestyles. The missionaries tried to tame the natives so that they could live in a village unde...

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