How Did England And Spain Influence American Colonization

History was made by those who had set their foot in the world. These people had the power, technology, skills, and capital in order to further their gains and two countries in particular were England and Spain. These two countries always competed in a race to see who can conquer and gain more land faster than the other. By analyzing how each of these countries did in the new world during the 1650-1750, we can see their motivation for colonization, changes in government (primarily political and economical), and what was their belief on Native Americans. Motivation of colonization for England and Spain differed with each other. England and Spain both wanted to have total control of the new world primarily in North America. With large amounts

The Europeans abused the slave trade in order to gain the work they need to prosper in the new world around the 1680s (Jones, 86). The African slave trade was very dispersed across the coast because each of the slave trading points were controlled by different European powers which did include both Spain and England (Jones, 86). Even though both of these countries abused the slave trade, the Spanish was a lot more interested in the slave trade more than the English. Economic gains of the Spanish and arguably the southern colonies of the England were revolved around the African Americans used as slaves, however the northern parts soon found out that it was immoral to have slavery decades later. So generally they did not want to have any part of the slave trade and left that piece of economic growth to the South. Politics changed when coming to the new world for both Spanish and English. Spain got their commands from the church and they followed their orders to the letter in the North America, and the English got their information from the crown but the voyages took a lot of time for simple orders. Politics were established by the colonists of both English and Spanish, technically speaking they had to govern themselves from time to time because they do not

The English saw them as “uncivilized savages” who need to be pushed out of “their land.” This view of the English put a storm forth against the Native Americans and with that their relationship with the Native Indians was not very pretty. The English wanted drive out the Native Americans as much as possible, they would even kill them if someone dared to disobey England’s authority. The Spanish on the other hand, had different plans for these so called “uncivilized savages.” The Spanish attempted to be friends with the Native Americans, but as time went on, the Spanish end up backstabbing them. Instead of being friends, the Spanish became the masters and the Native Americans became the labor force. By using them as labor force, the Spanish would be able to further their gains without having to use their own people. With truth, the Spanish did treat the Natives better than the English, mainly because the Natives were forced out of their land or executed on the spot for disobedience by the British, while the Spanish enslaved them and kept them alive and allowed them to live in their land that was conquered by Spain. In a sense the Spanish and English really did treat the Native Americans really bad and the only country who actually gave them a chance were the