1. Bashier Jones

2.  Very few people settled in New Spain, but by the 1550, there were about 100,000 Spanish colonists.  Many people hoped to get rich because gold and silver, and other came to start large farms.  The Spanish needed many workers, so they forced American Indians to be slaves, but thousands were dying from diseases.

3.  As more and more Indians died, so the colonists looked for other workers, so they brought Africans.  Enslaved Americans were working under the same terrible conditions under which the Indians had work.  Some colonists became concerned with how the Indians were being treated.

4.  By the 1500’s several European nations, including Spain had sent explores to claim land in America.  After establishing New Spain in 1535 Spain formed colonies protect its land govern people.  Most of Spain's colonies were govern by Spanish leader in Mexico city.  A colony is a land ruled by another country.  Spain protected its claims to land in North America by building forts.

5.  The Broadlands stretched across what are today's Northern Mexico and Southern of United States from Florida to California.  In 1565 Pedro Menendez defiles and 1,500 soldiers, sailors and settlers sailed from Spain.  However many Indians were forced to work on missions formed and ranches.  Some settlers in the badlands of Northern Mexico built estates called haciendas.

6.  The Spanish and the animals they brought with them changed lire for many Indian groups.  Spanish soldiers lead the way, building presidios of fort in the borderlands.  Spanish missionaries also help settle Santa Fe, the capital of the New Mexico colony.  Europeans settlements in what is now the United States.