England got ready to colonize by getting new economic structures and a new merchant class paved the way for colonization England’s merchants lacked estates but they had new plans to build wealth. By collaborating with new government-sponsored trading monopolies and employing financial innovations such as joint-stock companies, England’s merchants sought to improve on the Dutch economic system. (i think)
New economic structures and a new merchant class paved the way for colonization. England's merchants lacked estates but they had new plans to build wealth. Rather than formal colonization, however, the most successful early English ventures in the New World were a form of state-sponsored piracy known as privateering.
