The message in the quotation is that a colonist will never feel the need for independence unless something changes within him and becomes uneasy and unpleasant to live with that feeling that something must be done about it. A colonist will never feel the necessity for independence, only free men feel it.
They didn't create the settlements because D.<span>They didn't think the land was suitable for settlement.
The land in Australia is not suitable to grow cotton (which is a hot commodity back then) and it also possess a large number of dangerous animals that turned potential settlers away from the region. It also separated from popular trading routes in that period.</span>
It would be because the atomic bomb was a new superweapon, and napalm had been around for a while. Does that make it right? No, but what had to be done had to be done.
<span>D. An end to all alliances among nations
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