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Aug. 29 2009 I believe that the competition with Spain is what sparked the idea of colonizing in the New World. The citizens of England were facing hardships, but I think they jumped on the fact that England needed to colonize or else fall to the rule of Spain. The people of England would not have initiated this colonization by them selves. They knew that they needed to go someplace else and when the option of traveling to the new world to start anew came up they were all for it. The struggles of life in England were the fuel to the fire, but England’s competition with Spain was the match. A lot of people influential people in England were pushing for colonization. They were the ones that saw the purpose of colonization as a competition to expand an empire. They let everyone know how beneficial colonizing would be for England. They brought up the good things that it would bring, and those people who were struggling saw it as an opportunity. As to what kept them there when people were dying left and right I believe that pride had to have played some sort of role. Also the fact that even though they were suffering, they had more than what they had in England property wise and they weren’t willing to give that up to go back to nothing. They gave up what little that they had to come over to the New World and they weren’t about to give up all the new land that they gained. They risked what little they had to start over so they had to take pride in themselves and stick with what they started. They were proud to be Englishmen and they would have taken major pride in themselves for making it through the hardships.