What better than to use children as laborers. They require much less pay than would an adult laborer. This became known as the enclosure movement. A great deal of people lost jobs from the development. This left Elizabeth in a tight spot, what could be done with all those extra people? Exporting goods had become a rewarding business since peace had been made with most countries. Hakluyt stated a realization he made in Discourse of Western Planting, "the Revenewes and customes of her Majestie bothe outwards and inwardes shall mightily be inlarged by the toll, excises, and other dueties without oppression may be raised. Basically more trade equals more import and export taxes. The increase in trade made many job openings that would facilitate the economy. The poor made a perfect pool of available labor. They would do practically anything to leave the streets and would do so for little cost.
Now the new problem, England had this abundant supply of sailors, but what about ships? Ships required lumber and iron, which in turn required more wood. England's natural resources began to diminish. America had a stockpile of untouched natural resources which the Queen soon realized. She being the Queen of England had, "title to all the west Indies, or as moche as is from Florida to the Circle artiicke, " as Hakluyt said. The poor flooded to America as sailors. Once there they began to build the much needed ships from the newly acquired forests. As Hakluyt puts it, "That this westerne voyadge will yelde unto us all the commodities of Europe, Affrica, and Asia, as far as wee were wonte to travell, and supply the wantes of all out decayed trades. " Spain by now had become authoritative in the new world and proved to be an annoyance. Though Hakluyt tended to think otherwise, "the limites of the kinge of Spaines dominions in the west Indies be not so large as is generally imagined. " Even so he had a solution if he guessed wrong, "That this voyage will be a great bridle to the Indies of the kinge of Spaine and means that wee may areste at our pleasure for the space of teime weekes or monethes every yere, one or twoo hundred saile of his subjects shippes at the fysshinge in Mewfounde Iande.