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Colonial Frontier: French Jesuit Missionaries (2:14)
French missionaries infiltrated American Indian societies with great success. The French presence sparked a bloody Indian war that forced France to send troops.
Colonial Frontier: New Lands for France (2:43)
Joliet and Marquette discovered the Mississippi River. LaSalle later traveled down the river and established Louisiana along its banks.
Colonial Frontier: Catholicism in New France (1:49)
France’s strict immigration and settlement laws hindered colonization efforts since they restricted the rights of non-Catholics.
Colonial Frontier: France Loses Canada (0:35)
France’s inability to form permanent settlements allowed the British to seize its northern territories and its most important trading route.
