Why Colonize?

Spanish Motives: Gold, Glory, God Settlements: Their empire was a tight-knit closely supervised source of wealth Soldiers, merchants, and padres were main colonists Natives were subjects of sovereign-- thus fusion of cultures.

Dutch Interests: East Indies, New World, and Brazil sugar plantations. Motives: Fur trade, Northwest passage, and piracy Settlement: small and based in fur trade. consisted primarily of traders and merchants. Company-run by the Dutch West-Indies Company. Obsessed with yearly profit, poor Native relations.

French Entered race late, 1608.  Motives: Profit, national glory, spreading faith, Northwest passage to the Orient, Piracy of Spanish treasure ships. Settlements: Fishermen, fur traders, trappers, did business with natives and intermarried. Colonists were primarily soldiers, traders, trappers, and priests.

English Interest: Profit, national glory, spreading Protestant faith, Northwest passage, piracy, religious sanctuary. Settlements: women and children as well as men, based on farming and trading, expansive, not always good relations with Natives.