Basically, the French and the Spanish had a completely different approach: the Spanish wanted to exploit their colonies as much as possible: they extracted silver from the ground and exploited the local population.
They also wanted to convert the indigenous and were even employing violence to do this.
The French were more peaceful and were more interested in trade - of fur. They were rather cooperating with the indigenous than exploiting them
True. During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, immigrants from predominantly Catholic countries faced open discrimination at the<span>hands of the American-born white Protestant majority</span>
