The French gained control of Louisiana because they
a. preferred its climate.
b. saw New Orleans as a potential center of French culture.
c. regarded it as a way to command the mouth of the Mississippi and keep the Spanish in check.
d. hoped to spread Catholicism throughout the Mississippi Valley.
e. saw it as a new center for the fur trade.
c
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