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Title: History of the United States
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Andrews, Matthew Page. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Philadelphia and London, J. B. Lippincott company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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sults of ^ Cabots first book of the thrifty king: To hym that founde thenew Isle, £10. But the real importance of his discov-ery lies in the fact that the English people came to feel that theyhad a share in the explorations of the New World, a fact whichthey never forgot and which led to their final control of NorthAmerica. Averj^s History JOHN CABOT From John Cassidy models,Manchester, England ORIGIN OF ENGLISH CLAIM This first voyage of John Cabot resulted in the fitting out of anew and larger expedition for exploration and discovery. Con-sequently, he was put in command of a little fleet of four or fivevessels and granted a second royal patent of discovery under theEnglish flag. Setting out in the spring of 1498, prob- „ ^ ^ . . Second voy- ably accompanied by his son Sebastian, he again set age of Johnfoot on the shores of the New World. This time helanded on the coast of Newfoundland, whence he turned north-ward a second time along the coast to seek the much-desired ^Pt^^lp...
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MAP SHOWING FIRST VOYAGE OF COLUMBUS AND THE VOYAGES OF CABOT northwest passage to India; but somewhere off the shores ofLabrador, he again encountered perilous fields of ice and felt com-pelled to retrace his course to Newfoundland. From Newfound-land, he sailed southward for several weeks along the great andthen unknown coast of the North American continent on a voyage 4 DISCOVERY AND EXPLORATION which has recently been called the First American Coast Survey.It is not yet known just how far this survey or exploration ex-tended, but it now seems probable that Cabot touched upon orpassed by the shores of the present Atlantic seaboard States fromMaine to Florida.^ These discoveries of Cabot and the English in the north, un-like those of Columbus and the Spanish in the south, did not atonce lead to settlement and colonization. Successive voyagesContrast be- by many seamen disclosed the fact that savage IndiansrationT^in dwclt in North America, and that there w^as not the im-£)°uth Tme

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