Dutch Vs. French experience in the new world

The Dutch and French in the New World

Following the Spanish discovery and settlement of parts of the New World , other European nations joined in as they began to develop their own technology and capability to traveling there . Among them were France and Holland . The French were among the aggressive explorers and settlers of the New World as they were competing with the Spanish and the English . Most of the French who settled here were the Hugenots persecuted in predominantly Catholic France . They initially settled in what is now Florida and the

Carolinas but faced a very hostile Spain there which wiped out these settlements which was all the more better ' for the settler were Protestants . Later expeditions were sponsored by the king of France which saw the acquisition of parts of what is now Canada as underscored by the creation of Quebec by Samuel de Champlain and explorations by Robert La Salle saw the French moving southward and occupy what is now Louisiana . French settlers came to the New World to escape the religious persecution there and the Hugenots were one of those who fled France

The Dutch also staked their claim on the New World as well but was not great in scale compared to the other leading colonizers . Unlike the other colonizers which were sponsored by their respective governments Dutch explorations and colonizers were conducted by trading corporations such as the Dutch East India Company who were granted charters and they mainly settled in areas of what...