a. One similarity between the goals of the Spanish and the English in establishing colonies was to promote their religion to other countries. While they both had other motives as well (such as economics to acquire wealth), both countries had the goal of spreading religion (the catholic Spanish and protestant English) to the new worlds.b. One important difference between the goals of the Spanish and English was that the Spanish mostly settled to acquire prestige and power for the Spanish crown while the English settled more privately to improve quality of life and achieve religious freedom. The Spanish were more interested in the glory of the Spanish crown and their colonization was all made with the main goal of providing power to the crown. Many English settled through joint stock companies, a more private way of colonization that did not rely on the funds of the government. Many English also left England to pursue religious freedom and make an ideal model of the church they hoped the official Church of England would emulate.c. One way in which the difference contributed to the development of Spanish and English colonial societies was that the Spanish had more royal authority over their colonies, while the English lived a life more separated from their mother country. The Spanish Conquistadors always answered to their queen, and they focused on building necessary trading networks and spreading Spanish catholicism to the indigenous peoples. The English focused more on their individual goals, and expelled indigenous peoples from their land to make more community-based colonies.

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