A. 1. How did other European countries, such as Portugal, England, and France, challenge Spain's power in the
Spanish American colonies?
The European countries continually invaded the Spanish colonies to weaken Spain's
power and control.
b. The European countries sent people from their lands to secretly settle in the colonies
with the Spanish.
The European countries traded illegally with Spanish colonists to get around Spain's
strict control over colonial trade.
d.
The European countries blocked Spain's ports so that supplies could not reach the
colonies.
C.
1400s and 1500s?