The focus on fur trading in the Great Lakes region is associated with French colonization. The French established extensive trade networks and relationships with Native American tribes in this area, particularly for the fur trade. The other reasons listed are more closely tied to the activities of the Spanish or English colonizers. For example, converting American Indians to Catholicism was a primary goal for the Spanish, while cultivating cash crops in the Chesapeake Bay area was mainly an English endeavor.
Reasons for Seventeenth-Century European
Colonization of North America
1. To convert American Indians in the Southwest to Catholicism
2. To cultivate cash crops in the Chesapeake Bay area.
3. To extract precious metals from mines in present-day Mexico.
4. To profit from fur trading in the Great Lakes region.
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