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 Which of these describes the primary reason for French colonization?

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 Which of these describes the primary reason for French colonization?