why did the english want to establish settlements in north america?

Question

some one please respond. what are the reasons that contributed to the english settlement

Answer 1

oh Where to begin!

The banks and wealthy elite who funded the ships, a costly venture, wanted their money back. They thought it was India where the spices they craved came from. They were looking for modern day Kerala on the shores of the Arabian Ocean in India. They were in North America and they were all racing to find whatever they could claim. For King of course. They were, and still are, very close in communication.

Then of course there was the battle for souls. The major churches fought over the local Natives. The Catholic Church and the Jesuits, their henchmen, had the upper hand. Wherever the French or Spanish went, so went Catholicism. Americans were varieties of Protestants.

But mostly it was plain old greed and the desire of the old European monarchy to start again in fertile soil. This explains much of the British American connection. We won;t even start on the House of Tudor.

But remember, the French and the Spanish were equally greedy to "discover" America and steal it from its original keepers.

Many of these people who came over quickly to settle were fleeing religious intolerance or just wanted a fresh start.

The Bankers and financiers, primarily British and Jewish, got their feet in the door fast enabling them to control much of the deveopment of the nation. Including the genocide of the original native population.

The British used the same system to "tame" India, parts of Saudi Arabia, China, America, Africa. They were then well placed to exploit everyone. I have seen in India where they displaced entire jungles with tea plantations for hundreds of miles. Entire climates and lives are changed in the name of "progress".

But none of it would have been possible without ordinary people going in first and making it all possible. The Brits made money on all of them. That is why. And the moment they touched otter and beaver fur, their greed became monumental so they really pushed their explorers through to the Pacific.

They had no idea of anything and thought this wealthy land was forever. The furs, the metals, the land, everything, it was there to plunder.

Answer 2

One of the Popes (maybe Alex V?) divided the Americas between Portugal and Spain. Influenced by Dee, Elizabeth I decided to get in on the action and laid the foundations for what would later become the British Empire.

Mainly run by farmers and gentlemen, these early English settlements were created throughout the 1600s. Why did they want to? Economic and political reasons (raw resources and Imperial delight back in Europe) must have been important... it helps to keep in mind what kind of world view people of the time would have had.

The entire coast (Newfoundland to Florida) was named 'Virginia' in honour of Elizabeth I.... that's a good example of their attitude!

Answer 3

Sir Walter Raleigh based a settlement in 1587 customary as Roanoke Island. there have been 117 adult men, women human beings and young little ones. Raleigh back to England. In 1590 ships bringing aspects discovered the settlement, whether it grew to become into deserted. no one is conscious what handed off. the 1st effective settlement grew to become into Jamestown in 1607.

Answer 4

I wasn't the British government (the English) but British corporations that wanted to establish settlements in order to tap the resources of this vast land.

Answer 5

If you look at Europe--England is an island and they were looking for land to expand and help with making room. There was also things they needed from the New World and wanted to stake claim before Spain, Portugal, France and the Netherlands could claim all the land

Answer 6

1- To get some territory before the Spanish snatched it all
2- To gain more land for a rapidly growing population with limited resources
3- To search for gold to support the English military in its wars with France and Spain
4- To prevent the Cathoilics converting all the natives to Catholicisim, and open the way for Protestantism in the New World
There are many others, but these were the main ones.

Answer 7

There are many reasons but the main is so Europe can establish trade with what America had to offer such as beaver skins etc. but they also say that its becuz of religious freedom and freedom of the monarchy.

Answer 8

well, at time in the Europe has a fatal diseses, Plague, that caused by the Yersinia Pestis so they want to move, besides that the new land is more beautiful and also have a lot of natural resources.

Answer 9

"THE SUN NEVER SETS ON THE BRITISH EMPIRE" THE BRITISH WERE EMPIRE BUILDERS WHO WANTED TO RULE THE LAND AND THE HIGH SEAS. THEY TOOK AUSTRALIA, INDIA, SOUTH AFRICA AND SEVERAL COUNTRIES BORDERING THE SOUTH CHINA SEAS. THERE WAS METHOD TO THIS MADNESS, OF COURSE. ASIDE FROM SHEER POWER, THERE WAS THE LUST FOR GOLD, TIMBER, TEA, FURS, PAYMENTS FROM MERCHANT SHIPS AND THE SALE OF OPIUM

THEIR COMPETITORS WERE PRIMARILY THE SPANISH AND THE DUTCH.

THE BRITISH EMPIRE IS STILL QUITE LARGE AND INCLUDES, AUSTRALIA, CANADA, NEW ZEA LAND, SCOTLAND AND IRELAND.

Answer 10

To practice free religion, to get away from the strict tax system of England.