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For its material goods, like cotton and silk, and also for slavery.

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The Protestant Reformation, the defeat of the Spanish Armada, and the improving English economy put England firmly in position to colonize America in the early 1600s.

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England wanted Colonies because they wanted gold and silver and they wanted to get to the rich lands(china and the indies)!

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