Why did french colonies have trouble attracting new french colonists?

One of the main reasons why the French colonies had trouble attracting new French colonists was that "B. Potential colonists didn't want to do the hard work of clearing land and feared Native American raids," since the French territory was not as developed as either the Spanish or English land holdings, and there were fewer economic and social opportunities. 

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The native americans, spanish, french and americans all name places in our state. the word “arkansas” came from the quapaw indians, by way of early french explorers. at the time of the early french exploration, a tribe of indians, the quapaws, lived west of the mississippi and north of the arkansas river.