Italian explorer Giovanni Caboto (John Cabot) reached the coast of North America in 1497, and his son Sebastian apparently made another trip in 1508. England's next major voyage was the Pacific coast landing by Sir Francis Drake in 1579, a span of about seventy years. The next English explorer on the Atlantic side of the continent was Henry Hudson in 1607.
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After John Cabot it took about 100 years before the English did any further exploring or colonizing. Jamestown, Virginia was the first English settlement in America.
The English Government had very little money. The English people had no compelling reason to migrate to America. At the time, Spain and England were allies. Any attempt to settle America would have upset the alliance.
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English laws controlling trade were not strictly enforced
Hernando De Soto did a lot of "exploring" he conquered a lot of places but what he's mainly known for is discovering the Mississippi river in America... so mainly he was exploring the US (he also visited Panama, Nicaragua, and Honduras and became rich with Incan plunder)