Making them slaves to work on their plantations which eventually killed a lot of them.
A. Companies compete with each other for business
All of the other answers can be safely eliminated since they are more characteristic of a socialist economy. Answer choice A also makes sense, considering that private companies in capitalist countries like the United States compete with each other for business all the time.
The English, Dutch and French forces saw that the Caribbean islands where valuable and those European powers started to fight for it, when the English started to prevail Spain was forced to retreat and the consequences where that Spain lost one of its valuable land but also it lost soldiers during the fights it had with the other powers.
