Why Cabot Came To America

The most well-known explorers of the 1400-1600s are John Cabot and Cabeza De Vaca. Cabot did not originally go to find America. He simply wanted to find a better trade route to get from Europe to Asia. Now this was a good idea, but he ran into a problem, literally; he ran into America. With finding America, he had become, “the first European to find and describe North America since the Vikings,” (American Journeys). It has been guessed that he took notes but that none of them were found because they were lost at sea or Cabot disposed of them. Now De Vaca went on a most dangerous expedition to try and be the first European to cross North America. De Vaca went on an expedition with 600 men, but ended with only a couple hundred left when they were desperately trying to find a landing place. The difference about how Cabot and De Vaca came across North America is that Cabot found it by accident and it wasn’t a dangerous exploration, it was simply a new discovery; now, as …show more content…
They didn’t want to start wars or problems, they just wanted to explore the country, and so they did. It did cost them a good amount of money to get to America, but the payment was helped by the king of their countries to help them find new places that would benefit the county in the long run. So exploring immigrants went to find land where they could and claim it as their own. Unlike our world today, where they come to find refuge from a horrible life in their country. They don’t want to claim someplace as their own they just want a chance at a happy life; but the way that they are similar is that they do it in attempt to gain happiness and more freedom from a specific place. Even though each process is long and requires money and a lot dedication to the project, they can either be happy with their new lives or go back to their original country because no one is stopping them from leaving; leaving is the easy