The call for the meeting of a Continental Congress in 1774 came in response to the:…
In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, both Spain and France had developed settlements of their own in the New World. The settlements in the Southwest developed by the Spanish were very different from the settlements developed by the French in New France. In terms of Native American relations, the Spanish were much more harsh with the Indians, asserting their dominance over them, where as the French sought a more equal relationship with the Native American people. In terms of religion, the Spanish took on a much more assertive position, forcing the natives to convert to catholicism, while the French did not force their religion upon the Indians. Relations with Native Americans varied widely from region to region. There are many significant differences between the Native American relations on the Spanish settlements in the southeast and on the French settlements in New France. For example, the Spanish sought to use the Pueblo Indians for labor, where as the French settlers intended to only trade with the surrounding Native Americans. The Spanish produced income from their settlements by using the farmland in the Southeast for crops and livestock; they needed laborers to attend to their farms. They also sought tribute from the Native Americans, and offered nothing in return. The French, however, made most of their income from fur, which they received through fair trade with the Indians. They felt that it was best to leave the Indians be so that they would continue providing them with the quality furs.…
The different mother countries wanted to colonize the Americas, and competed to do so. Spain controlled Mexico and most of the Andes Mountains area, France controlled the Midwest territories, and Portugal controlled parts of South America. The English were far behind the other countries in colonizing land because they started colonizing after the rest of the countries. Many Englishmen journeyed to the colonies because they would acquire their own land, which was different from England, because only the oldest son can inherit land. Also, criminals who were mostly arrested and put to death for petty crimes were sent to the New World as an incentive. The country was so poor and overpopulated…
In the 1740's, Great Britain and France both realized that a struggle for control of North America was unavoidable. With the French's involvement in the fur trade and the English's concern with their cash crops the desire for more land grew, which ultimately caused clashes between the two empires.…
In the late 1500's many countries desired to increase their wealth and power by improve their imperial interests in the new world. The British, French and Spanish all had similar goals in imperializing and colonizing North America. These countries all took slightly different methods in achieving the overall goal of claiming North America and its riches for their respective nations. The differences in these goals and how these states went about achieving these goals effected the overall outcome of the colonization of North America.…
The history of colonial North America centers primarily on the struggle of England, Spanish, and France to gain control of the continent. Settlers crossed the Atlantic for different reasons, and their governments took different approaches to their colonizing efforts. These differences created both advantages and disadvantages that affected the New World’s fate.…
Throughout the 17th century, many European countries sent explorers and settlers to America. The two most eminent countries that colonized area of America were Spain and Great Britain. Britain began to establish colonies in the northeast; in the area they called New England. The Spanish interest lied in the southwest. Living in two unassociated areas caused the Spanish settlements and the New England colonies to be quite unlike each other. When faced with the task of finding similarities between the two, not much can be found. It is the differences that stand out when studying the English and Spanish, from religion to politics to ideals.…
The Anglo-French imperial competition, help lay out the ground work, but to understand how you have to look at the French and Indian war. The war was a fight for land in America between the French and Great Britain. The battles started when Great Britain wanted Ohio and…
1. Three arguments’ that Juan Gines de Sepulveda used to justify enslaving the Native Americans were for gold, ore deposits, and for God’s sake and man’s faith in him. 2. Three arguments that Bartolome de las Casas gave in attacking Spanish clonial policies in the New World were the Indians eating human flesh, worshiping false gods, and also, he believed that the Indians were cowardly and timid. 3. For comparisons that Sepulveda used, in lines 1-7, to express the inferiority of the Indians was their prudence, skill virtues, and humanity were inferior to the Spanish as children to adults, or even apes to men. Comparisons he used to dismiss the significance of the Indians “Ingenuity for various works of artisanship” were the animals, birds, and spiders that could make things humans could not replicate. In either situation, there was no appropriateness. 4. Las Casas may have weekened his case by requiring that the Spanish must restore what had been taken unjustly from the Indians because the Spanish ultimately modernized them and if they were given back what had been taken, they would again become ‘retro’. If the Indians had been given back their bow and arrows, then they would have no use for them because they have guns. 5. The bias that Las Casas expressed in the last paragraph in his book was that Muslims are savages.…
Colonialism is the establishment, influence, and exploitation of a piece of land through a political power from another country. One way for colonialism to happen is to create settlements in a foreign region. The Spanish had enough resources and supreme military power to take over the Americas despite the rebelling natives. “The Europeans conquered it, in spite of resistance by some 300 native people” (Chapman 4). “As early of 1598, Juan de Onate had led a group of colonists to the region north of the Rio Grande. These colonists set up small agricultural villages and ranches along the rivers and established the mission and town of Santa Fe in 1609” (Downey 43). Establishment of colonies meant more power, and the goal of the Spanish, French,…
One difference between the British and Spanish motives for colonizing was that the Spanish based part of their time converting people to Catholic. The British were not concerned with religion, but more concerned with expanding their empire and making a profit. So by now, the British had colonized most of the Atlantic coast from Maryland down to Georgia.…
The conquest and colonization of the peoples of America and their implications devastating for the aboriginal population of America were the immediate consequences of this momentous event. America had been isolated from the world for thousands of years, and the arrival of the Europeans took a radical turn to its history, with effects that feel up to the present time.…
The English were escaping violence and death from the old world. During this time England was separating from the Catholic Church and eventually established the Church of England; many laws enforced by Henry VII made it a crime being Catholic or any other religion. The English Settlement was very individualistic while the Spanish was about “saving the people”. The crown funded the Spanish settlements and they did not send people to populate, they would send military and religious people. It was also interesting that in the Spanish colonies social inclusion was something common and there were free slaves; while in the English colonies, being a person of color was seen as something bad. However in the Spanish colonies there was political exclusion; Only the Spanish were able to have a place within the government. In the English colonies, the ideas of Common Law and democracy were ideas/practices from the…
The Spanish and English colonies in the New World were similar and different in many ways. The Spanish and English wanted to colonize the New World with the same motives: riches, power, and more land. The ways they accomplished these goals differed though.…
Religious and cultural difference were part of the landscape of America as European settlers trickled in. The Colonization projects of all the European settlers, though similar, also varied in different aspects. When looking at the French and Spanish settlers we can compare and contrast motivation for exploration, roles of religion, and trade during the development. All of these things shaped the path for the land we live in today. Specifically I will address, Spain’s desire for power/money vs. France’s need to expand their fur economy, Spain’s surge for Catholic conversion vs. France’s hope for mutual benefits, and France’s fur trade focus vs. Spain’s Indian dependent natural resource trade industry.…