Huguenots
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French colonies were established in Canada, Acadia, around the Great Lakes, Louisiana and islands in the Caribbean.
The Articles of Confederation as well as the United States Constitution were intended to define the rights of citizens of the country. If French and English settlers were citizens of the colonies, the rights that were outlined in both documents would represent them as well.
80,000, spread out over an area twenty time the size of the English colonies
"un protestant" During the religion wars the protestants were also called 'les huguenots'
South Carolina
huguenots
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They wanted religious freedoms.
French settlers
French colonies were established in Canada, Acadia, around the Great Lakes, Louisiana and islands in the Caribbean.
French Protestants of the 16th and 17th centuries were called Huguenots.
The main reason French and Dutch settlers start colonies in North America was the abundance of natural resource. The land was rich with just about everything from trees to food and minerals.
Russians were not a significant population in the Southern Colonies. The predominant ethnicities of the Southern colonies, South Carolina for example were African, English, Scots Irish, Irish, Hugenot French, and German. There was a small group of Sephardic Jews in Charleston South Carolina.
The Articles of Confederation as well as the United States Constitution were intended to define the rights of citizens of the country. If French and English settlers were citizens of the colonies, the rights that were outlined in both documents would represent them as well.
80,000, spread out over an area twenty time the size of the English colonies