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New Spain Spai n had alre ady claim ed large part s By the 1500s, seve ral Eur ope an nati ons, of the Americas. How ever , Spai n lear ned including Spai n, had sent expl orer s to that claiming land was not the sam e as claim l...

New Spain Spai n had alre ady claim ed large part s By the 1500s, seve ral Eur ope an nati ons, of the Americas. How ever , Spai n lear ned including Spai n, had sent expl orer s to that claiming land was not the sam e as claim land in the Ame rica s. Mos t expl or- controlling it. Spai n cam e to und erst and ers step ped onto a beac h and clai med that it need ed to prot ect its land s in the the land for hun dred s of mile s arou nd. Americas from othe r Euro pean nati ons. They knew little abo ut the land s they Spai n also tried to over pow er Nati ve Ame rican tribes and take their lands. were claiming. Afte r clai min g the land s, Spai n form ed colonies to protect its these expl orer s mov ed on. No one stay ed land s and to gove rn the peop le there. behind to prot ect the claim s. A colony is a land rule d by anot her competing Claims country. The colo ny of New Spa in was The Eur ope an coun tries wer e com pet- form ed in 1535, with mos t of its land in ing with each othe r to win cont rol of as Mexico and its capi tal in Mexico City. much of the Ame rica s as poss ible. Ofte n New Spai n also incl uded man y islan ds in more than one cou ntry clai med the sam e the Cari bbea n Sea and the Span ish land s land. Nati ve Ame rica ns alre ady live d in nort h of wha t is now Pana ma. mos t plac es the expl orer s claim ed. READING CHECK 6MA IN IDEA AND DETAILS Usually, no one paid atte ntio n to How did Spain protect its claims in the anyo ne else 's righ ts or claims. Americas? :, SPANISH FORTS Spain built forts to protect its claim s to land in North America. :~ Q ~..; -.-i wn :~~. ~if l tl JJN ,; ~ ,~~ ft J 149..  died from diseas es that settler s brought Slavery in the Americas with them from Europ e. Diseases such At first, very few Europeans settled in as measles, smallp ox, and influenza the Americas. After more gold and silver sometimes killed whole tribes. were found, many more colonists came. Some colonists becam e concerned They hoped to get rich. Others came about how the Native Americans to start large farms, called plantations. were being treated. One such colo- By 1550, there were about 100,000 Spanis h nist was Bartolome de Las Casas colonists spread across the Americas. To (bar toh loh MAY day lahs KAH sahs). the south of New Spain, Portugal formed Las Casas was a landow ner who later the colony of Brazil. became a priest. He freed his ensla'lf.d worke rs and spoke out in favor of better The Growth of Slavery treatment of Native Americans. I I Both Spain and Portugal neede d many \ As more Native Americans died, the worke rs to grow crops and to mine colonists began to captur e Africans to be gold and silver. They forced the Native enslaved workers. Most of these Africans Americans they had conquered into were taken to Brazil or the Caribbean slavery. Slavery is the practice of holding Islands. Soon enslav ed Africans were also people against their will and making working under terrible conditions. them work withou t pay. Many thousands of Native Americans died from hunge r 1il#M@Je:IJB.t 8MAIN IDEA AND DETAILS and the work they did. Thousands more How did slavery develop in the Americas? >_SU~AR MIUS Enslaved Africans were forced to work in sugar mills m the Portuguese colony of Brazil. ,~. ~I - ~ 1 - - ~- - ~ : - -·...... ·.  J ' l r✓ ATLANTIC y OCEAN PACIFIC OCEAN \ ( }. El Paso ,e, del No.._,......... _ ~ ✓~ St. Augustine O 3\)0 69()Miles r n~ ,ey Gulf of Mexico -);::,- · \ \ s F 300 600 Kilometers ,uimuthal Equal.Area Projection Hav;in 't, 7., ~.,;~ ~ - Ver ~ anto QNewSp ain