Question

Why did the English establish colonies in the Americas? (I need a good explanation. YOU WILL GET A MEDAL)

Answer 1

please have a look here...


http://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/plaintexthistories.asp?historyid=aa80

Answer 2

No links please. I need another persons opinion.

Answer 3

In 1492,England was a small, self-sufficient country,relatively literate and industrious, prospering from the wool trade and fishing.It competed for trade against Dutch and German Hanseatic League in North abd Baltic Sea.
Merchants drom Bristol had been searching in the atlantic, for lands to the west as well as good cod fishing, a major industry at the time.They quickly followed up on the news of Columbus discovery by sending expeditions of their own John Cabot and Later Henry Hudson that revealed part of N.America and Newfoundland.When no Northwest Passage was found, their interest flagged, but by middle of their sixteeth century the English were heavily engaged in the Newfoundland fishing Industry.
Early English interest in the New Land focused on the rich flow of wealth from Spanish colonies.The Protestant English got involved in many of the Spanish wars, particularly in the Netherlands,and jumped at the oportunity to prey on Spanish shiping and towns in the New World.Captains Drake,Frobisher,Hawkins,and others were a major irritation to Spain.From 1577 to n1580 Drake circumnavigated the globeand bought home an enormous haul of captured Spanish treasure.

Answer 4

That doesn't quite answer it though. It tells how they found america and how they were interested in it but why did they establish colonies?

Answer 5

@Joel_the_boss

Answer 6

It reall depends on what country your talking about.