What was Spain’s primary motive in colonizing North America

Probably for profit.

Explanation:

Why they want North America: Profit, national glory and spreading faith

Claims to territories, gold, silver agricultural produce (Mainly sugar canes) and send missionaries to convert the local population into catholicism.

in which two ways were the northeast woodland indians and the southeast indians similar? both collaborated to form the iroquois confederacy. both cultivated the crops of corn, beans, and squash. both lived in rich environments of swamps and rivers. both lived in tree-bark dwellings called wigwams. both expected men to hunt, while women farmed.