Explain how Europeans foreign relations wars and treaties as well as English politics shaped the settlement of English/British North America

1. The English were not the first Europeans to land their ships on American soil. The Vikings had discovered North America in the 11th century. Columbus landed in the Bahamas in 1492 for Spain, and the French began expeditions to the New World in 1524 . But the first English presence in North America is important because the thirteen English colonies that would later be established eventually became the country now known as the United States of America.

what was the most common initial reason for settlement in north america by the first colonists?

What was the most common initial reason for settlement in North America by the first colonists?