<span>England was distracted, and the colonies were largely left to their own devices during the civil war in England.
During the English civil war, England let the colonies alone for twenty years. England was consumed with and distracted by domestic matters. This gave the colonies some independence to form a new land, with new ideas, and emerging political philosophies.</span>
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It might be said that the French explorers learnt how to make boats suitable for the coastal waters, rivers and lakes when they were at the great Lakes. They decided to build small sailing- ships to travel the entire length of the Missouri and the Mississippi River to New Orleans on the golf of Mexico. They built <span>native birch-bark canoes and large rafts.</span>