England Vs Spain Research

North America today is the ideal cultivation of opportunity and freedom. Americans are guaranteed these rights and that will never change. But before all of this greatness and righteousness, there was a race to see who would conquer this new land. This ultimate race was between England and Spain. These two Super-Powers had everything necessary to turn this uncivilized land into a prospering nation. By analyzing England and Spain in the 1650s-1750s, we can understand these Super Powers’ motivation for colonization, settlement and relations with the Natives, and their economic and political changes. With every objective, there is a motivation that propels a vessel to complete the task. In relation, both England and Spain had similar motivations to colonize in the New World, but there were few distinctions which set them apart. For the Spanish, one was their motivation to spread their religion through the Native Americans (Jones, 65). By spreading their practice, they would be able to hopefully get the Natives on their side and utilize them with their upstart in North America (Jones, 65). With this, they are simultaneously expanding their kind. In result to spread their religion, they built Missions to further their spread amongst the …show more content…
The world’s relationship with the Natives was not the same with everyone, some countries respected their presence, while others hated their guts and wanted to demolish them once and for all. With that in mind, the Spaniards were Native friendly. Since the Spanish were trying to combine forces with them to try and spread their religion, they did not try to kill them or force them out of their already claimed land. All in all, their relationship was mutual since there were no abrupt actions being done; no one was forcing anyone out of anywhere, and no one was trying to kill