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French colonizers in New France
a. treated native Indian people much less humanely than the Spanish and English did.
b. brought Protestantism to Quebec.
c. sent many more emigrants to the Western Hemisphere than England.
d. established the most enduring alliances between settlers and Indians in colonial North America.
e. established hundreds of slave plantations.
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