According to classical conditioning, the conditioned response is a learned from a previously neutral stimulus.
For example if a dog is given food daily by whistling first to call it, over time the dog will associate whistling with food , then whistling is a conditioned stimulus which is associated with unconditioned stimulus which is food.
Conditioned response is learned whilst unconditioned response occurs naturally and automatic without prior learning such as a dog salivating at the taste of it food.
I believe it would be that D) it could help to protect other English colonies. This is because of its relative position. Being to the south of the other colonies and directly North of Spanish Florida, it would serve as a buffer between the English colonies and the Spaniards.
