Causes of English Exploration and Settlement Search for wealth (gold, silver) National competition The joint-stock company Adventure and primogenitureReasons for English Immigration to the New World Increasing population (1450-1600) Food scarcity, wage pressures Enclosure movement in England and urbanization Protestant Reformation and religious separatismFrench Exploration and Settlement Jacques Cartier and the Saint Lawrence (1535) Samuel Champlaign and Quebec (1608) Montreal founded (1642) Indian alliances, missionary zeal, and fur trading Robert LaSalle and Mississippi navigation (1682) Louisiana settled (1718)The English Settlements John Cabot and Nova Scotia (1497) Plantation of Ulster (1565) Francis Drake and the Sea Dogs Humphrey Gilbert and Newfoundland failure (1578) Walter Raleigh and the Roanoke “lost” colony (1587)Further Settlements Jamestown settlement (1607) Henry Hudson and Dutch Exploration (1609) House of Burgesses (1619) Plymouth separatists (1620) The Massachusetts Bay Colony
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