1. The Spanish borderlands Melissa Mariscal

3. Describing the latest effects of the colonies built by the Spanish, French and English in North America.

4. Spain’s main interests in settling the borderlands were protecting its empire and expanding its economy. However, the Spanish king also wanted to “bring people of that land to our Holy Catholic faith.”The Need For Trade

6. Raise corn, and build irrigation canals.

7. Raise children, explore new waterways.

9. The Spanish wanted to protect their new found gold and silver from other European countries.

10. The Spanish believed that the borderlands would bring good luck to their explorations.

11. Used horses for transportation, to hunt, and for warfare

12. St. Augustine

13. Jamestown

15. To raise animals and horses to improve transportations.

17. The buffer north of “New Spain” protected it from New France, New Netherland, and the English coloniesG O L D