Comparing The Spanish And New England And The Spanish Colonies

Finally, the Spanish and New England colonies were largely similar yet somewhat different in their treatment of the indigenous people due to intermarrying with the tribes and forcing the natives into slavery. The Spanish colonies and New England had largely similar views on intermarrying with the native tribes. In the Spanish colonies, colonists started to form relationships with the indigenous people. With the almost completely male population of conquistadors being sent to the Americas from Spain, the conquerors began to marry and have children with the indigenous women. These children, with one Spanish parent and one native parent, were called Mestizos. The child would be considered white if the father was Spanish, but if the father was a …show more content…

During the Pequot War, a war started over a land dispute between the English colonists, allied with the Narragansett and Mohegan tribes, and the Pequot tribe, the New Englanders killed over 700 Pequot Indians and sold the surviving natives into slavery in the West Indies. The Spanish colonies and New England were both somewhat different and largely similar in how the indigenous people were treated. The Spanish colonies and New England were largely similar because both colonies married the natives. Both the Spanish colonies and New England intertwined their cultures with that of the natives’. Along with intermarrying with the native tribes, the Spanish colonies and New England were largely similar in that both colonies enslaved the Indians. The colonists used the enslaved natives to help their economies thrive. Despite being largely similar, New England and the Spanish colonies were somewhat different because the English married the indigenous people to change their native ways while the Spanish did not use marriage as a way to alter the natives. The colonies were also different because the Spanish actually used the indigenous slaves in their colonies while New England mainly sold the natives