Describe how both religious and economic factors stimulated English ex

Describe how both religious and economic factors stimulated English expansion in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries.

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ANSWER
Religious: Protestant England challenged the New World hegemony of Spain; religious dissenters, persecuted in England, migrated to America. English monarchs viewed America as a convenient dumping ground for religious dissidents.
Economic: The enclosure movement, population growth, and price inflation created a displaced, unemployed, and mobile population available for immigration. The quest for national wealth and greatness suggested the need for colonies as suppliers of raw materials and consumers of English trade goods.