Question

How were the English motivations for colonization in North America different from those of the Spanish further south?

Answer 1

The correct answer is D.

Both Spanish and English, as Christians, shared the aim of evangelizing the natives and also the aim of enriching themselves using the opportunities that new world discovered could offer, but through a different approach.

The English saw colonization as a manner of expanding existing enterprises and establish new profitable businesses overseas. An evidence is that the first English colony founded in 1607 in North American territory was Jamestown, in current Virginia. The founder was London Company, an English private enterprise, which also sent funding to the Plymouth colony founded in 1620. The English focused on exploiting the business opportunities in American land, although they also conducted trade.

On the other hand, the Spanish sought to enrich the Empire, by establishing a prosperous trading economy and there only  some farming activities in a few Western regions.