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// Chapter 6  // France was slow in colonizing because of domestic issues with the intolerance between French Catholics and Huguenots. Louis XIV put a lot of resources into establishing Quebec and Canada as a vast French colony, known as New France. It was originally controlled by royally commissioned companies, but was taken directly under the control of the French monarch. Unlike New England, the colonists of New France were mostly Catholic and had elected assemblies and had no right to trial by jury. France did not the Protestants migrate to New France because they feared Protestantism would spread. The French government was mostly focused on France and the profit of the Caribbean colonies. New France grew because of fur traders who were known as coureur de bois. The French built forts along the Mississippi River to maintain control Louisiana from Spain and Britain. Britain and France fought with colonial militias and native allies. The empires refused to commit large numbers of regular troops but did send officer to command them. The war ended with the Peace of Utrecht in 1713. It force France to give the Hudson Bay territory to Britain. In 1754, the British government summond a colonial congress in Albany, only 7 of the 13 delegates showed the lack of colonial unity. In the Seven Years War British commanders split forces attacked outposts, not Quebec directly. The British captured Montreal and Quebec in 1760 and the whole of New France was English. The colonists wanted the rights of Englishmen but did not want the name or responsibilities. The British wanted to prevent another Indian War so they made a Proclamation of 1863 which said no one is allowed to settle past that line but Settlers poured across that Line in the years to follow.