"The children of the wandering beggars of England, that grow up idly, and hurtful and burdenous to this realm, may in Virginia be unladen and better bred up, to benefit of the home and foreign countries, and to their own more happy state."Richard Hakluyt, A Discourse Concerning Western Planting (1584)Question:The statement above was made to Queen Elizabeth I of England in support of Walter Raleigh's effort to found a colony in the New World.Which of the following social conditions in sixteenth-century England does the quotation reference as a reason why the monarch should support permanent settlements in North America?

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