Why did English exploration activity in the New World take the contours it did during the 1500s? Were English explorations of the New World successes or failures?

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An ideal answer will:
1. Discuss the English lack of interest in building settlements throughout the 1500s, as warfare, such as the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588 and piracy to obtain gold and silver treasure from Spain seemed more important for England.
2. Discuss the practice of English fishing off the North Atlantic coast of North America as an early venture into the New World.
3. Discuss the interest of England and Sir Walter Raleigh in establishing a base in North America from which privateers (pirates) such as Francis Drake could operate and profit from English piracy missions.
4. Discuss and evaluate how poor resupply planning, the outbreak of war with Spain, long-term adverse weather, conflict with the Algonquin Indians, food shortages, and geographical hardship were all reasons for the failures of the English colonists' ability to establish permanent settlements first on the Chesapeake Bay and later at the "Lost Colony" of Roanoke in 1587.
5. Suggest political and economic reasons why the English failure at establishing a permanent settlement at Roanoke in 1587 did not deter them from making another effort at a permanent settlement at Jamestown in 1607.
6. Write a concise and effective conclusion.