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Because France wanted to trade with inner china. Ghey wanted to take Vietnam, because they thought that they could get to China through there, but they realized that they couldn't after the colonization was already complete. This was due to very high waterfalls.

France also wanted rubber, which was made by burning the sap from rubber trees found in Vietnam. At first they traded with the Vietnamese, but then this was an extra incentive, besides the route to china, to colonize Vietnam.

France also used social darwinism. Charles Darwin wrote a book called "origins of species", which promoted a theory called "survival of the fittest." The Europeans then decided that the most "fit" nations should rule the other "unfit" ones, which is what France decided to do with Vietnam. this craze which swept across Europe is known as "social darwinism."

France also thought that they were doing Vietnam a favor.

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The official reason was to propagate the Christian faith. In that vein, settlers were brought over to settle the land and missionaries to convert the native peoples.

But, soon after, the trading of furs became a good reason to establish forts at the various key river junctions and the like throughout the Great Lakes and midwest. These too were used by missionaries. Sometimes there were conflicts between the missionaries and the traders regrding the sale of alcohol.

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The French wanted to improve the Christian Faith. They believed the more land they owned, the more people they could convert and make Christians out of!

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In 1534, Jacques Cartier took possession of the territory for the king of France. After that, slowly, people started to come and live here. But most of them arrived after 1660s.

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BECAUSE they maybe . . . .

felt like it.

or thought it was pretty.

or maybe cause it was all they could find.

dumbasss.

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France wanted the furs from Canada. They also wanted to find a way to China.

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Cause they felt like it

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for trade and for good resourses

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to avoid the British

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