At last Spanish influence was too strong, and Sir Walter faced death on the scaffold as bravely as he had faced the Spaniards in battle.
Thus died a noble man who gave both his fortune and his life for the purpose of planting an English colony in America.
SUGGESTIONS INTENDED TO HELP THE PUPIL
The Leading Facts. 1. John Cabot, trying for a short route to India, discovered what is supposed to be Labrador, or Cape Breton. 2. On a second voyage he coasted along eastern North America as far south as the Carolinas. 3. Later, England claimed all North America. 4. Francis Drake sailed to the Pacific in the Pelican and then turned northward after the Spanish gold ships. 5. He wintered in California, and then started across the Pacific—the first Englishman to cross. 6. Drake reached England, and was received with great joy. 7. Once more Drake went to fight the Spaniards, until the Great Armada attacked England. 8. Walter Raleigh, a student, a soldier, and a seaman, won the favor of the queen. 9. He hated the Spaniards, and planted settlements in what is now North Carolina. 10. What was Raleigh's prophecy?
Study Questions. 1. Tell the story of John Cabot before he came to England. 2. What did Cabot want to find when he sailed away and what did he find? 3. How was Cabot treated by King Henry VII, according to a "Citizen of Venice," after he returned? 4. Why was little attention given to the new lands by the English?
5. Prove that Spanish and English sailors did not like each other. 6. Who was Francis Drake? 7. What was Magellan after and what was Drake after? 8. Find out why Drake renamed his ship the Golden Hind. 9. Tell the story of Drake's voyage from Valparaiso to Oregon. 10. Tell the story of the voyage across the Pacific and how he was received at home. 11. What did Drake do when he missed the "Gold Fleet"? 12. What did Drake mean when he said he had "singed the King of Spain's beard"? 13. What became of the Spanish Armada, and what effects did its failure produce?
14. What other brave man went to America before the Armada was destroyed? 15. Give the early experiences of Raleigh before he was thirty. 16. Make a mental picture of the cloak episode. 17. Explain how kind the Indians were; how did the English repay the Indians? 18. What did the colonists take home with them? 19. Who was the first white child of English parents born in America? 20. How did the destruction of the Armada affect Englishmen who wanted to go to America? 21. Read in other books about Raleigh's death. 22. How did the English treatment of the Indians compare with that of the Spaniards?
Suggested Readings. Cabot: Hart, Colonial Children, 7-8; Griffis, Romance of Discovery, 105-111.
Drake: Hart, Source Book of American History, 9-11; Hale, Stories of Discovery, 86-106; Frothingham, Sea Fighters, 3-44.
Raleigh: Hart, Colonial Children, 165-170; Pratt, Early Colonies, 33-40; Wright, Children's Stories in American History, 254-258; Higginson, American Explorers, 177-200; Bolton, Famous Voyagers, 154-234.