All of the following were characteristics of the development of the colony of New Orleans EXCEPT
A) it was an isolated geographic spot that initially had difficulty attracting volunteers despite the efforts of French speculators to make New Orleans succeed.
B) the first slave ships arrived in the colony in 1719 and New Orleans proceeded to be a major transit point for slaves from Haiti and Senegal.
C) most of the early immigrants from France were prostitutes and criminals.
D) the successful settlement of New Orleans did not appreciably improve the strategic position of France to become the dominant European power in North America.
Answer: D
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