How Did The Spanish Colonization Of The English Colonization

Spain sent several explorers to the new land. Juan Ponce de Leon, the governor of Puerto Rico explored Florida, and Hernado De Soto traveled to North Carolina, along the Mississippi, and down the Arkansas River, looting and destroying Indian villages as he went. Francisco Vasquez de Coronado traveled through the south in hopes of discovering gold and other riches. Spain began forming settlements in North American in a strategic move to protect their South America empire. St. Augustine was the first European settlement in the United States, set up to for the sole purpose of protecting the southern edge of the continent. Spain continued to colonize further and further, imposing Christianity on the local Native Americans. Indians were given Spanish citizenship, but that also came along with paying Spanish taxes. The invasion of the Spanish into the Indian lands caused massive destruction to the Indian civilization. The Spanish brought diseases from their land that the Indians had never been exposed to. It also brought destruction by soldiers; stealing their land and harming their people. The Spanish were equipped with more soldiers, and had larger ships allowing them to transport their weapons more efficiently than the Indians.

The English were compacted into one geographical area and had two main goals; provide England with raw materials, and develop a thriving consumer market in American that would use English made goods. To establish their population, they encouraged people that were not welcomed in other colonies. This opened the door for convicts, the homeless, and religious deserters to flurry in creating a mixture of backgrounds. The English offered the American dream; land and a better way of life. They often took the Native American lands and gave to their settlers to accomplish this