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Analyze Similarities And Differences Between The Spanish And The French

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While creating and managing their new colonies in North America, the Spanish and the French had both similarities and differences in their motives, governing methods, and the treatment of the native Indians. Both the Spanish and the French intended to create colonies to make money, but the ways in which they carried this plan out had differed. The Spanish were motivated by hoping to find gold and riches in America, but changed their focus to conquest and expansion after they did not find the amount of goods they had hoped for. The French wanted to establish a fur trade with the Indians. The two countries differ in way in which they governed their newly formed colonies. Spain had set up a "divide to rule" method of government for their

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