Justification For Spanish Colonization

When America was discovered in 1492 by Christopher Columbus exploration of the New World began almost immediately. England began to set up colonies in the new world. Programs such as Joint-Stock Companies, Headright systems, and Indentured Servants were made in attempt to encourage British immigrants. As time proceeded thirteen colonies had been established . These colonies began to flourish through impacts of the political, social and economic developments. Some colonies were established for religious reasons, others created for money purposes. The southern colonies were formed solely to make money for the mother country, England. The southern colonies consisted of Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and Maryland. With the establishment

In the years 1607 and 1630, the world saw the beginning of two very important English colonies; Jamestown, Virginia and the Massachusetts Bay Colony. England had many reasons behind their colonization. A major reason was the idea of Mercantilism, a concept in which colonies are said to exist solely for the benefit of their mother country. The Virginia Company went to Jamestown in 1606 in hope of using the land to cultivate crops and to make a living. In 1630, the Non-Separatist Puritans went to the New England Area in hopes of setting up a religious commonwealth for the people.

One of the original intentions of the colonies was to tap into some of the wealth and gold the spanish were finding in south america. However, when no gold was found in Virginia the colonies focused on producing

The New England and Chesapeake colonists settled in the new world for different reasons like religious freedoms in the North and quick profits in the South.

During the Ages of Exploration, various European nations, such as Spain, French and England, created colonies in the newly discovered America. England, in particular, created settlements near the East coast of North America. The reason behind the rapid expansion and colonization was the idea of mercantilism. Mercantilism is when the mother country, England, exports more than it imports. The colonies were responsible for bringing the raw materials to the mother country, where it was turned into finished goods and then be exported. Mercantilism was believed to be a zero-sum game, which meant that if one country had something, other countries could not take it. Since Spain already had various settlements in the New World, England wanted to compete with them and gain land to become more economically advanced. Two particular regions of settlement for the English colonies were the Chesapeake region and New England. The Chesapeake region include present-day Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania. The New England region included Massachusetts Bay Colony, Plymouth, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. Although they were both English colonies, they had developed distinct societies. People left England to go to the New World for different reasons. Whether it was for religious or for political reasons, it had caused the two regions of settlement to differ from each other in the colonies’ social, political, religious, and economic aspects.

There were three different colonies that started on the land of America. The colonies started out around the same time period. They were the Jamestown, Plymouth, and Rhode Island. These colonies came to America for the same reason, freedom. The Jamestown colony came to America looking for golds, silvers, and precious stones, which they expected to get them for free except a little labor. Similar to Jamestown, Plymouth came to America for the freedom of religion. They were the Puritans, and did not want to associate themselves with the church of England. Just like the other two colonies, Rhode Island came to the New World because the Freedom they desire. Although the colonies have somewhat a similar desires coming to America, their perspective

Between 1492 and around 1735, Europe colonized in the Americas in order to gain more land. However, it was not due to excessive population in Europe, but rather mercantilism. In mercantilism, countries try to gain as much wealth as possible by increasing export and decreasing import. Europeans established the American colonies for their resources and not for the expansion of the countries. In North America, England colonized the eastern coast for its lumber, iron ore, and cash crops. The colonies were split into three sections, New England, the Middle Colonies, and Southern Colonies. Each had its own economy. In each of the colonies, the resources were gathered and turned into other products. However, there were not enough settlers willing to do this so the landowners used slavery to harvest and refine goods.

In Virginia, the colonists were largely there to make money. In Maryland, the idea was to create a a colony for Catholics who wanted to be serfs of the Lords Baltimore. In Massachusetts, the Pilgrims and Puritans came to America to find a place where they could freely persecute those who didn't share their beliefs. But there was a healthy profit motive in Massachusetts as well. Profits were thin at first, and so were the colonists. Trouble growing food and trouble with the natives kept the early colonies from success. Before long though, the colonists started cultivating tobacco, which was a win for everyone involved if you ignore the lung cancer angle. So kick back, light up a smoke, and learn how America became profitable.

For freedom or because of politics, many of the English colonists fled the English rule. Though, there are two other reasons, economy and religion, that heavily influenced the creation and success of the colonies; especially the Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, and other Southern colonies. Therefore, English colonists established some colonies in North America for economic and religious reasons.

Although the Spanish and the British started colonizing the new world relatively at the same time their colonization efforts we’re extremely different but had some overlapping similarities. The differences include the two nations different reasoning to explore the New World, their relationship with the Natives, and it types of governments that they attempted to set up. Although some of these differences might not seem as if they are very important, they helped one nation do you better than the other one when it came to colonization efforts.

The British colonies in America began not by the government but as profit seeking corporations. King James chartered a joint-stock enterprise as a religious mission to convert the Indians to Christianity but a lot of their intentions were motivated by the lure of profit. They were looking for a source of gold and other minerals, products like wine, citrus fruits and olive oil, and forest products.

This report will be explaining the reasons that Spain went to the new world. Here are some of the political reasons that they colonized and explored the new world. One reason is because to build there influence and their glory. Another is that they wanted to leave there mark in the new world. Well we know they did because the main language is Spanish and and most of the houses look Spanish. Some other reasons are because they wanted to build there amry and power. Spain  was the first to explore the new world so they wanted more explorers that were willing to go so the had dauthers of Royalty, marry the son of Royalty and then Spain would merge with the other counties.

Shannon, the quote about the literature of the time does sound like propaganda. In fact, while reading, it made me think of our current media and how certain articles and news outlets use their articles and portrayals to favor their agendas of the moment. The agenda here was to colonize the New World and to separate from the oppressive rulers at the time. Justification does create competition to colonize new land first, but it also eases the mind of the settlers because they "needed" the land so in their mind there was no harm done when they ripped it from the natives. Part of that justification, is to paint the natives as "savages," so that the colonies did not view settling as displacing these individuals,

The belief that history is written by the victors is certainly the case when it comes to the Spanish colonialization of the Americas. A majority of the texts describing the Spanish conquest of South America and Caribbean are from the perspective of the Spanish and are bias toward the Spanish cause. Two such texts that offer a differing viewpoint are The Florentine Codex and A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies by Bartolome de las Casas. The Florentine Codex gives the story of Moctezuma and the natives of South America as they faced invasion from the conquistadores. The other account from de las Casas, a Dominican friar, tells of the hardships and cruelty the natives faced when the Spanish stepped foot and set up societies in the Caribbean. While conquering the Americas, the Spanish conquistadores showed no empathy for the people they defeated along the way and often manipulated and killed the natives for their own personal gain. They treated the natives as inferiors and this all stemmed from their motivation for the conquest. The motivations of the invading Spaniards blinded and allowed them to view and keep the natives of the Americas as inferior to themselves and therefore made it easier to justify conquering and controlling them. The main motivations that drove the Spanish to conquer South America were their pursuit of obtaining gold, showing the power of Spain, and using Christianity as a means to justify their actions.

The Americas in the Western Hemisphere were discovered by the Europeans, first by the Spain (discounting the Vikings who landed five hundred years earlier) in 1492. England would follow five years later, sending John Cabot, the first European since Leif Ericson to step foot on the North American continent, westward in 1497. Colonization began some time after that, and beginning with the founding of St. Augustine in 1565, lasted from the late sixteenth through the early eighteenth century. It is often cited that modern-day America was colonized primarily in the hopes for establishing the religious freedom currently known in America today. When this is said, what was actually meant is that the English Colonies that would eventually comprise the original thirteen states of the USA were created in order for religious minorities from England to worship freely, without the influence of the Anglican Church, the state religion of Great Britain. The rest of North America, including much of the land now owned by United States’ current, was colonized for purely for profit. Columbus stumbled upon the Caribbean Islands while attempting to create a trade route to Asia. The Spanish, the first major European colonists, who settled most of present day Mexico, South America and Florida intended and succeeded in exporting a fortune’s worth of gold and silver back to