The establishment of both Spain and England in Americas started with one sole person; Cristopher Columbus, an explorer who founded the Americas in 1492, when he stumbled upon one of the Bohemian islands. From then on out Spain started settlements, more specifically in North America, by Ponce De Leon, and eventually the English came around to claim land as well sometime in 1589. Although both parties went to the Americas for similar motives they were quite different in their tactics to achieve their goals.
Spain began their conquests by looking for gold and lands to further colonialize, along with this they planned on converting the natives of founded lands to be under the rule of the Spanish monarchy. When the English came along they also saw …show more content…
This meant that they also owned the native’s tribes and ultimately lead to an almost slave like treatment of the natives in order to provide cheap labor. Another big part in the economy established in the New Land was land exploitation in search of precious gems and gold. It was then that the Queen made it a rule that 20% of the profit made in the Americas by Cristopher Columbus was to be sent back to the Spain. Slaves were made from the natives and helped make Spain a lot of money, eventually when gold wasn’t very high in demand and a mountain full of silver was founded the treatment of both the native and African slaves worsened. Later on the larger cities began producing food from them and Spain decided they did not want these colonies to become independent so they cut off supplies they had been sending over to them. This forced the colonies to produce goods for themselves and overall hurt the Spanish economy. To make up for this Spain then decided to import African slaves to the Caribbean to extract goods to trade. The English colonies who functioned off of mercantilism, also worked around Britain’s rules and most of the profits made were sent to Britain. What they did was have the colonists’ farm raw goods that were exported back to Britain, which was then …show more content…
For both parties their monarchs sent rules and regulations, and supplies to their settlements in the New Land. The major difference that separated them was that England was looking for somewhere more permanent to settle their surplus of poor population and make money off the land due to it, while the Spanish just wanted to exploit the land of all its goods to make the maximum profit they could. Another less major factor to separate the two, was their culture, because if it were not for the Queen of Spain the natives would not have rules to protect them and keep them from harsh conquistadors. Although both wanted to spread their mostly Christian/Catholic faith, England was not willing to mingle with the natives and intermarry with them since they were settling with a family from Britain, meanwhile the Spanish had many ways of calmly getting their faith across and many even intermarried and started new races. They both did similarly punish those natives who did offend them, and both did use them as slaves. So more or less both settlements had their own way of taking what they wanted similarly, but due to the even bigger differences between the two, they couldn’t have been set apart even
Spain began their conquests by looking for gold and lands to further colonialize, along with this they planned on converting the natives of founded lands to be under the rule of the Spanish monarchy. When the English came along they also saw …show more content…
This meant that they also owned the native’s tribes and ultimately lead to an almost slave like treatment of the natives in order to provide cheap labor. Another big part in the economy established in the New Land was land exploitation in search of precious gems and gold. It was then that the Queen made it a rule that 20% of the profit made in the Americas by Cristopher Columbus was to be sent back to the Spain. Slaves were made from the natives and helped make Spain a lot of money, eventually when gold wasn’t very high in demand and a mountain full of silver was founded the treatment of both the native and African slaves worsened. Later on the larger cities began producing food from them and Spain decided they did not want these colonies to become independent so they cut off supplies they had been sending over to them. This forced the colonies to produce goods for themselves and overall hurt the Spanish economy. To make up for this Spain then decided to import African slaves to the Caribbean to extract goods to trade. The English colonies who functioned off of mercantilism, also worked around Britain’s rules and most of the profits made were sent to Britain. What they did was have the colonists’ farm raw goods that were exported back to Britain, which was then …show more content…
For both parties their monarchs sent rules and regulations, and supplies to their settlements in the New Land. The major difference that separated them was that England was looking for somewhere more permanent to settle their surplus of poor population and make money off the land due to it, while the Spanish just wanted to exploit the land of all its goods to make the maximum profit they could. Another less major factor to separate the two, was their culture, because if it were not for the Queen of Spain the natives would not have rules to protect them and keep them from harsh conquistadors. Although both wanted to spread their mostly Christian/Catholic faith, England was not willing to mingle with the natives and intermarry with them since they were settling with a family from Britain, meanwhile the Spanish had many ways of calmly getting their faith across and many even intermarried and started new races. They both did similarly punish those natives who did offend them, and both did use them as slaves. So more or less both settlements had their own way of taking what they wanted similarly, but due to the even bigger differences between the two, they couldn’t have been set apart even