The document summarizes the political, economic, social, and religious factors that influenced European settlement in North America by Spain, England, and France. Spain explored for gold and converted natives to Catholicism. England sent private companies and poor settlers to establish colonies for fishing, shipbuilding, and farming. Puritans fled England seeking religious freedom. France traded furs with natives and prohibited Protestants in New France, instead settling Huguenots in the Carolinas. The relationships between Europeans and natives differed - the French built strong ties through fur trade without slaves, unlike the English and Spanish.