Answer:
B
Explanation:
The important legal document they were lacking was B. The Title to the land
the lands under french control in the early 1700s were Canada, Québec, Trois-Rivières and Montréal, Hudson's Bay; Acadie, in the northeast; Plaisance, on the island of Newfoundland, and Louisiane ( Louisiana), Gulf of Mexico, including all the Great Lakes of North America.
The best answer would be: Ethnicity
I feel like quite a few of these would fit in some cases, but the closest one would probably be A.