Differences Between New England And Spanish Colonies

The immigrants that settled the colonies of Chesapeake Bay and New England came to the New World for two different reasons. These differences were noticeable in social structure, economic outlook, and religious background. As the colonies were organized the differences were becoming more and more obvious and affected the way the communities prospered. These differences are evident from both written documents from the colonists and the historical knowledge of this particular period in time.

During the 17th century, many nations started settling all throughout North America. Spanish conquistadors claimed much of the Southwest, while England began to occupy the Northeast. The Spanish and English colonies varied in terms of the impact of religion and control of the economy.

Throughout the 17th century, many European countries sent explorers and settlers to America. The two most eminent countries that colonized area of America were Spain and Great Britain. Britain began to establish colonies in the northeast; in the area they called New England. The Spanish interest lied in the southwest. Living in two unassociated areas caused the Spanish settlements and the New England colonies to be quite unlike each other. When faced with the task of finding similarities between the two, not much can be found. It is the differences that stand out when studying the English and Spanish, from religion to politics to ideals.

During the 16th and 17th century, there we two nations destined to settle on new land. From England, there were several ships loaded with people, ready to make port on this newly discovered America. This new land would soon be divided into two nations; New England and The Chesapeake. Major battles and conflicts will one day bring this land to what America is today, one Nation under God! Before the development of America, comes many disputes and differences between these two nations. Though they had much in common, they had many more differences, including why they settled in the new land, how they survived, and who benefitted more from settling.

Throughout the 1600’s, the Middle colonies and the New England colonies had more differences than similarities. They had different religions, areas of expertise, and overall economics. First, the colonist who settled in the New England and Middle colonies had different religions. In New England, the majority of people practiced the Puritan faith.

In New England colonies, the Puritans were more of a valued and preferred group in terms of religious beliefs in the New World. The Puritans left England and arrived to the Americas to seek religious freedom, since Anglican churches resembled too much like Catholicism, because of this Puritans did not tolerate any other form of religion. Spain was the same way. In the Spanish colonies Catholicism was a prefered religion, any other religion was forced out of the colonies and were not tolerated as well. Even though the colonies main religions had the same tolerance for others, the colonies had totally opposite beliefs. New England prefered Puritans, but the Spanish colonies prefered Catholicism. Both colonies forced Native Americans to convert to the colonist beliefs, putting aside the differences between religion they had the same

Like other original colonies, New England and Chesapeake were colonized by English settlers. Today, New England is acknowledged as the colony settled by hard working families that established tightly knit communities that centered their lives around their strong Godly beliefs. Virginia is known for its prospering trade and plantations where successful crops such as tobacco were produced. During the 17th century, citizens from England left and began settling in New England and Chesapeake regions. Although they came from the same country, they were not motivated by the same reasons.

The two colonies had some very similar features about them. For example, they both believed that religion was a major part of life. Also, they thought that the church was a very important building to have in their villages. The church was a place where the colonists could worship God. The colonists were very straight forward when it came to religion.

The American colonies were a diverse and interesting people. The colonies are typically split between the New England colonies and the Southern colonies. While both sets of colonies would eventually make up what is now the original thirteen colonies of the United States, they both had their similarities and differences. What led to the differences of the two sets of colonies and how were they similar? This question was relevant then and it is relevant in today’s world.

In this paper I will discuss the differences between the Southern colony and the New England colony and how each labor systems worked. The Southern and Northern colonies differences were obvious in their regions. The differences that I will discuss will be the religious choices, governing, and economy. I will compare the many beliefs on how things were to be governed and who made those decisions for the good of the colony and their economic status. Religion: There were four original colonies of New England: New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island.

While Britain’s colonies flourished in America, Spain’s floundered. The colonies focused on searching for gold, converting the Native Americans to Catholicism, didn’t export from the colonies, and kept to themselves. The French and British colonies were successful, doing nearly the exact opposite, so France and Britain grew more powerful than Spain and the Netherlands. The colonies in America were important money-makers for the warring countries, and were soon squeezed for the profit.

The original 13 colonies in America were originally founded upon similar governments and methods amongst the states. All of the various colonies, in the different regions had to deal with problems of religious tolerance. Before the 1700's reactions to different religions and tolerance varied from different sections of the country, New England colonies had very little religious tolerance, in comparison to the Middle and South colonies who had a bit more religious tolerance.

In a time when Native Americans occupied present-day America, the Age of Exploration began in Spain, and the Puritans who disagreed with the Church of the England fled to a place where the Puritans could practice their faith without scrutiny. It is in this context that the Native Americans used to dominate the New World until the Spanish founded New Spain for Gold, God, and Glory. The English explorers who settled in the New World after being persecuted in England and to make profit this caused conflict with the natives eventually leading to the French and Indian War. The Spanish and English colonies that settled between 1492 and 1700 were significantly different in the way the two different groups used religion to determine what happened

He immediately took the Arawaks as servants and ended up taking around 500 back to Spain with him but only 300 survived the trip due to abusive servantry. On his second expedition he encountered the Taino people who he quickly began enslaving to use for gold mining and agricultural purposes. The Spanish treated indigenous people as part of their own after forced labor and conversion to catholicism.Numerous spaniards even reproduced with natives, resulting in Mestizos. The English took an entirely different approach with the natives, keeping the natives very separated from their colonies and people. While the English still forced the natives surrounding the colonists to convert to Christianity, even after conversion the natives would be put into Praying Towns, still separated from colonists. Praying Towns were the homes converted Indians were housed in where all native customs had to be given up, and natives had to begin farming like colonists. Indigenous people were not looked at as part of the English colonization process even after conversion, but rather as a roadblock to colonists getting the land and resources that were so heavily wanted. The Spanish and English colonies were similar in treatment of indigenous people in the fact that both took advantage of the people when natives were first discovered, and forced conversion to Christianity upon the Indians. The Spanish used Indians as slaves and the English used natives to learn the land and then took over and kicked their people out of it. The nation's handled indigenous people differently because the Spanish took in the natives after a conversion process and started accepting their people into the culture, while the English forced natives out, taking their land in the process and making natives remove all aspects of their culture with nothing to gain from doing

In the early 1600’s many walks of life came to the America’s, some in search of the riches that had been told of, and some just searching for freedom of religion. Among some of these people were colonists who had established their first permanent colony in Virginia, but low and behold many of these people fell victim to dissension and disease (Norton,41). Life in America would not be as easy such an easy task. Many of these people came with the intentions of relying on some of the local Indians for help in the areas of food and tribute, but the Indians did not want to cooperate (Norton,41). The Indians would prove to be another difficult task that would be encountered by most, as most of them did not want to convert to the new ways and traditions of life, let alone conform to a new religious