Reasons and motives behind the English colonization of America.
...tepped forward to be the next man to sail across the sea to America. However, Raliegh received the same charter as Gilbert and was sent to complete the voyage started by Gilbert. Raliegh also sent out and exploring expedition under Phillip Amandas and Arthur Barlow. Both men brought back animated reports about the coast of what is now North Carolina. King James VI of Scotland ascended the throne of England in 1603 after the death of Queen Elizabeth. James played a masterly political game and kept his kingdom out of war. There was peace during his reign; both with his subjects and foreign powers. With the establishment of peace with Spain, due to the efforts of King James I, England was in a position to found a successful colony in North America, “provided it did not encroach on Spain’s area of potential occupation.”# Restricted opportunities at home encouraged dreams about settling and profiting from new territories abroad, but Europe was “slowly recovering from the demographic catastrophe of the fourteenth century and had no great compulsion to export its people.”# As the demographic losses were made good and Europe’s population began to strip away their resources, the position of sending citizens to settle across the sea quickly was switched, and England began to send more people to America. Propaganda abruptly started appearing among the common folk of England. Essays and reports were passed out between citizens of different villages. One essay in favor of expansion stated that “the voyage is not long nor tedious, six weeks at east will send us thither, whereas six month suffice not to some other places where we trade.”# Aside from propaganda personal accounts of voyages to the new world were also shared with the aristocrats, as well as the commoners. Richard Hakluyt was closely associated with many of the expansionists of the time, and was a compiler and editor of an English navigation publication. Hakluyt began to make a collection of reasons from Dr. Dee, Gilbert, Raliegh and Walsingham to provoke political backing of expansion expeditions. Of the twenty-three points made by Hakluyt, certain specific arguments were made against trade, the build up of ships, and the welfare of the nation. The soil in America was described as being able to “yield all the several commodities of Europe, and of all the kingdoms, dominions and territories that England tradeth with.”# Growing foreign crops in America would be essentially cheaper for Britain, and the route which must b...