Cabot’s Voyages
At a glance:
- Series: Great Events from History: North American Series
- Categories: Land Acquisition and Expansion, Territory Redistribution, Discovery, Exploration, Geography
- Subcategories: Colonialism, Colonies, Settlements, Ships, Naval History, Explorers
- Curriculum: British History, Renaissance History, American Pre-Colonial History (to 1606), Canadian History
- Geographical Location: Canada
- Date: June 24, 1497-May, 1498
Article abstract: England begins to sponsor exploration and land claims in North America.
Summary of Event
The late fifteenth century was an age of intense, increasingly national rivalry in Europe. When it became known that Christopher Columbus, by sailing west, had landed on a hitherto unknown coast, all the nations fronting the Atlantic became interested in exploring the New World and laying claim to some of the lands that Spain and Portugal planned to reserve for themselves. England, at peace after the Wars of the Roses, with a strong government...
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