Spaniard colonizers spoke and heard different languages than did Dutch, English, and French colonizers in the N. American northeast. Spaniard colonizers brought Roman Catholicism to the indigenous populations. Both Protestant, Anglican (Episcopalian), and Catholic established a presence in the northeast. Spaniards came largely to pillage and remove mineral wealth. In the northeast colonists were more motivated by establishing industry and trading with homelands. Spanish colonies tended to be dictatorial, northeastern colonies tended towards democracy.
