Select the reasons that French settlers came to New France.

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Lawson Webster

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2 October, 08:41

Select the reasons that French settlers came to New France.

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Mayra · Answer 1

The demographics of New France (present day La Belle Province Quebec en Canada) show an almost entirely Roman Catholic territory.

French folk interested in migrating to the Canadas had to pass a religious 'acid test' to prove allegiance to the Roman Catholic Church.

Most came to receive free land and hoped to become independent farmers although feudalism also came to New France with the French.

French Roman Catholic Jesuit Priests worked at inculcating Catholicism into the indigenous cultures of the Algonquin, the Ottawa and the Huron who already had a deep sense of religiosity in their own right.