Answer:
The Atlantic coast from Newfoundland to Virginia was claimed for England by John Cabot.
Step-by-step explanation:
John Cabot, born as Giovanni Caboto about 1450, probably in Genoa, died about 1499, was an Italian explorer under the English flag. He was the first European to reach Canada since the Vikings. He was the second person from Europe to reach the American mainland, just a week after Amerigo Vespucci.
Cabot was a citizen of Venice in about 1490, when he and his sons left for England. There he succeeded in finding support for the eastern sea route to India. He sailed from Bristol in May 1497 with only one ship and reached Cape Breton Island in today's Nova Scotia on June 24 of that year, claiming the area for England. The following year he went out again, this time with five ships. No ship came back, and no wreck has ever been found. Just a few years after Cabot sailed, Western European fishermen began fishing off Newfoundland's coast.