Describe the approach Spain, France, and England each took in settling the New World, including how they acted toward Indian populations.

The Spanish came to the New World with the intent to find
gold and as a decidedly minor task, to Christianize the Indians. They were quite greedy
and ruthless in their relationships with the Indians, raiding Indian treasures and
carrying away all the gold and other precious elements they could find. Hernan Cortes is
quoted as telling Monteczuma II, "We Spaniards have a disease of the heart that only
gold can cure." They often pressed Indians into service working in mines to search for
gold and silver, and treated them especially cruelly. The first revolt in America was
Pope's rebellion by the Pueblo Indians against the
Spanish.

The French came primarily to search for furs,
which they obtained primarily by trading with the Indians. By and large, they had much
better relationships with the Indians than either the British or Spanish. Quite often
French traders took Indian wives and wore Indian clothes. In one fateful event, Samuel
de Champlain killed two Iroquois Chieftains, which alienated the Iroquois from the
French. They fought with the British in the French and Indian
War.

The British came to settle and make America their
home. Although they were dependent at first on the Indians for survival, they soon
adopted the typical Anglican attitude of superiority. They considered Indian use of land
to be wasteful, and took it from them with abandon. In a number of battles with the
Indians, they thought nothing of killing women and children. In one particularly
gruesome event, a group of Indian chieftains were invited to Jamestown to discuss a
peace treaty. After negotiations were completed, the British offered to celebrate the
occasion with wine. Unfortunately for the Indians, the wine was poisoned. The only
treaty the British wanted was elimination of the Indians.