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Use the excerpt from Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage to Newfoundland, published in 1583, to answer the question. Your response should be a paragraph in length.In the 1560s, Sir Humphrey Gilbert proposed a plan to search for the Northwest Passage. Later, he devised schemes to colonize North America and upset Spanish, Portuguese, and French fishing operations in the region. In 1583, to this end, he established the English colony of Newfoundland. How do these events and the account of Gilbert's 1583 voyage reflect the influence of competition among European nations on exploration and colonization of the Americas?

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