In my vie the right answer should look like this: The purpose of plating in the establishment of early settlement was to build towns near rivers or barbors
Containment was a United States policy using numbers of strategies to prevent the spread of communism abroad. A component of the Cold War, this policy was a response to a series of moves by the Soviet Union to enlarge its communist sphere of influence in Eastern Europe, China, Korea, and Vietnam.
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Answer:
European nations were rival and they also wanted to get colonies to gain an advantage over their rivals plus it was a sign of prestige and power
