European Interactions With The French, English, And The Spanish

Christopher Columbus came thinking he found Asia when in fact all he found was the Americas. The ship they were in was called Saint Maria. The first place they landed was Cuba. They were in search for gold mostly, which Columbus promised the king and queen in Spain. He took the Arawaks Indians as slaves when it was hard for him to find gold. When he arrived in Haiti he created the first military base called Navidad which means charismas. Columbus then traveled to the Hispaniola and his thoughts was he arrived in China. He described the Indians as naive and willing to share. Indians did not believe in marriage. To them people may choose who are their mates and if

     When Columbus landed on the beaches of the Watling Islands of the Bahamas in October, 1492, he had

From the mid 1500’s to the 1700’s, people from all over Europe flocked to the vast lands of North America. Spain and England quickly became the most dominant European presences in the Americas. Citizens of the two countries had very different experiences in the New World. This was partially due to their different interactions with Native Americans, religions and their different motivations for coming to the New World. Although rivals at the time, Spain and England’s colonization efforts shared many similarities.

Supported by Spain, seeking a water route to the spice islands in 1492 Christopher Columbus left Spain on his first voyage. After more then a month had passed, the crew started to loose all hope and the voyage seemed like a failure. Until on October 12, 1492 land was sighted. The land that was sighted was not what Columbus had originally intended to find. Columbus landed in the Caribbean Sea in the Bahamas, which was thousands of miles away from his original destination. It was there that he met the indigenous people of the islands. These encounters that he had along with the treatment of these native people would eventually help shape his legacy, but at the

Native Americans had many encounters with Europeans, one of which involving the French. They first came into contact with each other around the 1600s and were predominantly civil. In fact, compared to all the other Europeans who came to America, I believe that they had the most pleasant of interactions. The French primarily traded with local natives when they first

In order to protect their lands the Indians needed to have a good relationship both with the British and the French. Both relations were very different, they preferred the relation with the French side.

The French and Spanish brought their own ways of how they handle the native situation in the new world. The French thought it would be a good idea to team up with the natives, since there were already so many inhabiting the area. The Spanish on the other hand thought that deceiving the natives by making them work in the encomienda systems was the best way to gain profit for their mother country. The English were in the middle of both circumstances. The colonies tried to conquer as much as land as possible by wiping out the environments and killing off natives in those areas, yet they did respect their boundaries. People in the colonies focused on different ways to trade, by watching how their rivals did it. Colonists immediate contact with Indians and others, quickly allowed them gain knowledge of their surroundings, thereby giving them a sense of individuality under a different union rather than

The French experienced the best relationship with the natives as they were very cooperative with the Natives, peacefully tried to convert them and married Native women and integrated with them. The Spanish came behind the French as they integrated with them as well however they were much more violent in exploiting them for resources through systems like the encomienda system. However, the English had the most tarnished relationship with the Natives as they looked to expand at the Natives expense and saw the Natives as inferiors.

The stories regarding the Native Americans and European settlers all commence somewhat similar: the Natives welcome and help sustain the Europeans in the start. They become an instrumental piece to the European survival in the Americas. The relationship starts to change, however, as settlers grow independent. In some instances, when there is only personal gain to be acquired, the relationship becomes a simple trade relationship. In other instances, relationships between the Native Americans and Europeans evolve into a drastic feud driven by European imperialistic ideas to impose political, religious and cultural law on the Natives.

In the New World from 1492 to 1700, Christopher Columbus, a Spanish explorer, discovered the New World and began bringing Spain more wealth. Bullion and indigenous people were being brought to Europe. More expeditions continued to the New World and eventually settlement began to establish. The New England, the Middle Colonies, and the Chesapeake areas became the major colonies in the New World. In 1619, slaves were shipped across the world to farm and mine the colonies to bring wealth to England. Conflict across the colonies occurred making the development of the colonies difficult. It is within this context that the Spain and England are trying to establish the New World and wealth but in different ways. There are three significant differences between the Spanish and New England colonies. Spain and England had their own perceptions of the role of religion, economic base, and treatment of indigenous people.

1. From 1600 -1763, several European nations vied for control of the North American continent. Why did England win the struggle? (73)

Crisis and Transformation in Northern New Spain: Defensive Expansion into Texas: Spain establishes a mission in Texas, that was not adequate and a disappointment. Women and the Law in New Spain and British North America: The Spanish women had more rights to her, her husband, and family earnings and inheritance than the English women. Eighteenth –Century New France: Slavery and Colonial Society in French Louisiana: In 1729 the French enlisted slaves to fight with them, which will earn them their freedom (Black Militiamen). Imperial Rivalries: Queen Anne War was about competing for trade. British had little chance in expanding west of the Appalachian Mountains. Forces of Division in British North America: Moving into the Backcountry: With so many people entering North America colonies people move to the back country.

The French interacted with the Native Americans by developing trading alliances with them. They used the Native Americans to slave away at making trading materials. The trade strengthened the relationships within the tribes and the French because not only did some tribes eventually convert to Christianity, they developed an understanding and somewhat friendship. The French gave gifts to the Indians as they continued to make materials to trade for them and also to trade inside

Though North America was first explored by Europeans when Nordic people settled in modern-day Canada circa the 11th century, widespread colonization of the North American continent did not truly occur until the arrival of Spanish explorers four centuries later. English explorers quickly followed the Spanish to the New World and, though each group of colonists faced similar issues, the two colonies handled life in North and Central America quite differently. The Spanish and English colonies were generally the same in regard to their treatment of Native Americans while significantly different when examining the role of the European government on their colonies ' leadership in addition to their diverse economic foundations.

During the Colonial Period, the Native Americans faced many different types of settlers from different colonies, some were good interactions while others not. Some of those colonies included the French, the Spanish, and the English which includes the Pilgrims, Puritans, and Quakers. Whereas the French and Indians got a long well, English and Spanish interaction with natives were not as great as that of the French.