Spanish American Colonies Research Paper

The Colonies were the start of the Americas. The Colonists actions decided the fate of their settlement. Whatever they did, how they treated the Native americans, how they developed their economy and government determined the outcome of their settlement. There are different management styles that helped the colonies prosper, or caused them to fail. They’re government, economy, population push and pull factors, religious tolerance and labor needed to be managed properly in order for success. Some colonies eventually became more successful than others due to the ways they settled and their treatment towards the Native Americans. The Spanish colonies were the first to make it to the Americas. They colonized the southern parts of the Americas. But in order for them to be allowed to go and colonize the land they needed permission from the king and queen, who actually did not own the land, themselves. Like all the other French and English Colonies established. Yet they gave the land away so that they could stretch their empire and gain riches for Spain. That was their only purpose for colonizing in the Americas was that they wanted to grow their empire. That was the main reason of all the other Colonizes, settlements. Once the Spanish got there they would send out their conquistadors to …show more content…
Their population source was very different than the Spanish population source, which was mostly conquistadors, and soldiers (later came the farmers) which was very different than the other colonies. Their government was completely subject to the king, unlike the Spanish who had Viceroyalties but they are still similar because the viceroys needed to follow all the king's laws and could not make any of their own. The beginning of the French colonies were French catholics, protestants were excluded. The Spanish hated protestants but the French settled in Canada which was a distance away from the