How did the Spanish colonies differ from those established in North America?

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Answer 1

A. Differences
1. major sources of gold, silver, pearls, and precious gems remained a
Spanish monopoly
a. explorers scoured the Americas for resources
b. areas left for the English and French to exploit contained only
fool's gold
2. hard to find crops suitable to sustain colonial life in North America
a. tobacco, rice
b. independent farmers could always cultivate smallholdings for
their own subsistence
c. form of exploitation could never be the foundation of prosperity
3. New England's potential as a great world center of wealth and civilized
life in the eighteenth century lay in the exploitation of the sea
a. slave trade
b. the export of locally produced rum and manufactured goods to
the slave-producing and slave-consuming markets with which
the slave trade connected the New Englanders
c. East India trade—mainly with China, by way of Cape Horn on
the southern tip of South America—for tea and porcelain to sell at home
4. south of Virginia, American colonies resembled those of the Spanish,
Dutch, and Portuguese
a. hot and wet, with torrid lowlands that could be adapted to plant
cash crops with the labor of imported slaves
b. economic reliance on large-scale, capital-intensive enterprises
created huge disparities of wealth