Compare the english and spanish colonies?

Question

I just have one question

Why did each country want to colonize?

Answer 1

The Spanish settlements in the American Southwest and the English colonies in New England of the seventeenth century can be contrasted in primarily two ways. First, their politics were based on entirely different ruling classes and systems of government. Second, they employed different avenues of economic development.

The Spanish settlements began with Cortes and others conquering the Native Americans of South, Central, and parts of Southwestern North America. After eradicating a large portion of the Native American population, the Spanish began to intermarry into the Native American gene pool. Consequently, only portions of the population were pureblooded Spaniards. These Spaniards occupied the highest social and political status. Those from Spain were one step above those born in the New World while those of mixed or Indian heritage were at the bottom of the social ladder. Additionally, because the Spanish came as conquerors, the resulting political system was entirely autocratic and solely devoted to the furthering of the motherland. Immediately after conquering the Native Americans, the Spanish looted large amounts of gold, silver, and other valuables. This tradition continued into the seventeenth century as Spanish ships would come annually to bring gold and other valuables back to Spain. In this way, Spain viewed Spanish America as an object useful only for its mercantilist objectives. Since mercantilism was its only objective, Spain gave its colonies little self-rule. Instead, Spanish rulers dictated all the policies of its New World territories.

The English, on the other hand, settled relatively peacefully into the Eastern Seaboard of North America. Englishmen migrated to the New World not as conquerors but rather because they wanted independence, political freedom, and economic opportunity. Combined with England's tradition of partial representation, the English Colonies had a large degree of self-government. The colonies all had some form of a representative assembly that was voted in by popular support. While only white male landowners could vote, this still constituted some degree of democracy. In some colonies, even the governors were decided by popular vote. Also, many of the British colonies, such as Virginia, were established by joint stock companies or established as proprietary colonies, such as Pennsylvania. Even royal colonies were often simply colonies given a royal charter but still established by a group of people not directly

affiliated with the government, such as the Puritans who settled the Massachusetts Bay Colony. As such, the British colonies, unlike those of Spain, didn't exist for the sole purpose of mercantilism. The English imposed some mercantilist policies such as the Navigation Act, but even those were enforced laxly if at all. Even when they were enforced, these laws only regulated trade, but never neared the Spanish autocratic measures of directly taking gold and valuables from the colonies to England.

The Spanish colonies developed economically by using the Encomienda system. In this system, Spanish lords exploited and manipulated Native Americans and used them to do manual labor on the land. The English however, relied on African American slaves and sometimes indentured white servants to do their manual labor. Native Americans died or caught diseases too quickly on colonial plantations to be efficacious.

The Spanish Colonies also lacked natural resources, thus resulting in slow economic development. The English Colonies on the other hand, had abundant natural resources. Their economy prospered in the fur trade, fishing, lumbering, farming and other industries that produced raw materials. This abundance of natural resources stimulated trade into the colonies as developed industries in Europe required raw materials to convert into refined goods.

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Answer 2

1. MONEY!

it all goes down to money and fame!

2. INFLUENCE

If a countey had many coloneis it was considered beter richer and etc.

3.ECONOMIC

The slaves from Africa and America were good labor.

Answer 3

1-The English and Spanish colonies were established for completely different reasons.

.....England colonize North America

2-English colonies were first established by the Puritans who were seeking refuge, freedom of religion, and economic opportunity.

3-The English colonists,enjoyed far more freedom and were  

4-English had established dominance in North America

5-The Spaniards came to America's on accident in a futile attempt to find an alternate trade route to china,with a thriving community, complex architecture and cities of gold.

Answer 4

Gold, Expand territory, Convert to Christianity, Conquer land in the name of their monarchs.