American history help PLEASE!?

Question

Compare and contrast the French and the Spanish.

Answer 1

Yes, I have contrasted the French and the Spanish.

Now, are you wondering what the French and the Spanish have to do with American history?

Answer 2

Briefly,

French involvement in the New World was really only meant to extract resources from the New World without a great zeal to transplant many people, nor to conquer Native tribes.  Obviously, there was a serious effort to convert those tribes, but not to make them slave laborers.  In the French model, small groups of trappers ansd administrators relied on the Natives to do most of the fur trapping and bring the furs back in.  

Spanish involvement was also aimed primarily at extracting resources, but also at conquering the local people and converting them to (essentially) slave labor.  Converting them to Christianity was an even more important factor.  This has to do, of course, with the fact that the Spanish had only recently reconquered their own country from the Moores, and were, thus, very enthusiastic about bringing Christianity to other peoples by sword if necessary.

Of the two, the Spanish colonization (that is planting people from Europe into the New World) was was considerably more extensive than the French efforts.  Neither, of course, was nearly as extensive as the British efforts to transplant large populations to the Americas.