Compare And Contrast French And Spanish Colonizers

French and Spanish colonizers came to America to obey the rulers (king and queen) of Spain, while the English were considered “free people” as long as they still practiced and followed the English law.

Not like the French and Spanish, the English colonizers wanted other countries to immigrate from their countries and colonize in America. Spanish and French wanted total rule and control.

First English colonizers came to settle in Massachusetts and Virginia, where as the French colonies were in Newfoundland, and the Mississippi river. Spanish colonies settled in California along the coastline, as well as New Mexico, and Florida.

Colonizers that came from Spain were soldiers; conquistadors, and missionaries, colonizers from England were farmers,