English Colonization

Question 1

What year did John Cabot leave for the New World?

Answer 1

1497

Question 2

The similarities between Cabot and Columbus:

Answer 2

Same generation and city, Genoa
Sought a western waterway to Asia
Sought sponsorship from Henry VII
First explorers of respective sponsors to reach the New World 
Both used modest ships and crews
Both thought they reached Asia

Question 3

Big difference between Cabot and Columbus:

Answer 3

After his fourth voyage Columbus received fame and fortune

Cabot never returned from his second voyage

Question 4

Elizabeth I becomes the queen of England

Answer 4

1558
Wanted to make England a world power through the expansion of trade
To achieve this she needed a bigger navy to compete with the world’s first and current superpower Spain under Phillip II

Question 5

Elizabeth sends Humphrey Gilbert to establish a settlement

Answer 5

1578 “the pathfinder of the British empire”
He fails
1583 tries and fails again, got lost at sea
England is vulnerable to attack from Spain

Question 6

Sir Walter Raleigh wants to complete his half brothers dream of colonizing the new world

Answer 6

1585 arrives in Roanoke island off of North Carolina and names it Virginia

Question 7

Several journeys are made to keep the colony from failing from:

Answer 7

1586-1597

Question 8

Spanish Armada is defeated

Answer 8

1588

Question 9

Consequences of the defeat of the Spanish Armada

Answer 9

Spain consolidates power in the New World
France becomes a superpower
England is free to colonize

Question 10

John Cabot

Answer 10

Set sail in 1497
Sponsored by king Henry VII
Wanted to avoid Arab middlemen
Left little documentation of voyages