Spain's Goals In Colonizing America

Spain’s goals in colonizing in America revolved around boosting their economy, adding the Spanish culture to the Native Americans’ culture, and finding a shorter route to Asia. Due to the world being much more expansive than people at the time thought it to be, they failed to find a faster and convenient route to trade with the Asians. They did, however, bolster their economical gain by gathering resources and searching for minerals like gold. The Spanish aimed to get as much gold as they could by searching as much land as possible and creating a policy that reserved all profits from the Americas to go to Spain. Spaniards found success in the West Indies, Central America, and South America in finding these valuable minerals. The Spanish imposed …show more content…
The French draw the greatest parallel out of the countries with Spain, because they to convert the natives to Roman Catholicism. While the Spanish settled in what will be Florida and Central America, the French settled in the harsh, cold environment of eastern Canada. The French weren’t as encouraged by their political and religious leaders, causing them to have less of an impact on the natives. Fur trade in Quebec eventually led to settlement and in time the modern city known today. The French received some incentive about twenty years after coming to the Americas, when the government ordered that Roman Catholicism is the only religion that may be practiced in New France. Although it was the original plan, France began creating more incentives for settlement in their new land. Soldiers were deployed for protection, wives were shipped into the dominantly male and single population, and a minister offered monetary incentive to couples that had many children. The French aimed for riches like Spain, and a route like the other countries, but ended up developing fur trade similar to the …show more content…
Although none of them were able to devise a more efficient route they were all able to benefit from mercantilism from their voyages to the Americas. Spain and France desired to spread their religion with the natives, but England was quite reclusive toward the natives. France and Spain also explored much of America for riches, but the British and Dutch were quick to settle in their own areas after losing hope of reaching the Indies. England came to new land in need of raw materials, at least more dierly than the other countries, yet the Dutch and French found profit in the furs of local animals. All of the countries came to settle in the Americas and even began competition for power and control over land, showing that despite their different goals they converged into the same goal of claiming land in