The correct answer is letter B.
Explanation: What motivated a trip of English settlers to the "new world" was fundamental to the discovery of precious goals: gold and silver.
Colonization in America had very precise objectives: to divert, besides promoting or graduating the Monarchy, to make extraordinary profits possible. The economic activity that most concentrated Spanish interest in New World was the mining of precious metals: gold and silver. Mining was the articulating axis of the Spanish colonial economy.
The original thirteen colonies flourished and developed into what became the fifty US states, thanks to ample resources and opportunities. This country's political geography was the consequence of many treaties and conquests that resulted in the country reaching from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.
John Brown (1800-1859)-was an anti-slavery advocate who believed that God had called upon him to abolish slavery. May or may not have been mentally unstable. Devoted over 20 years to fighting slavery, due to misunderstanding, in revenge he and his followers (his sons and others) killed five men in the pro slavery settlement of Pottawatomie Creek. Triggered dozens of incidents throughout Kansas some 200 people were killed. Was executed, still debated over whether he is a saint or killer.
