Questions for Jeff Pasley's section, 9/14/06

Based on the textbook and the online readings (especially the Requerimiento and T.H. Breen's article "Looking Out for Number 1"), what were the major similarities and differences between Spanish and English colonization of the New World? The English and other competitors of the Spaniards and their ally, the Catholic Church, relied heavily on the so-called "Black Legend" of Spanish cruelty to justify their own form of colonialism, contending that the English treated native peoples much more fairly and humanely. Was there any truth to that self-serving English view at all?