I say A) Economic Decline
The reason why the spanish leaders wanted to push spanish control into North America during this time period was mostly because they wanted to gain more cotrol - which could be obviously achieved through more physical gain of the land of North America.
<span>C. people fear taking risks.</span>
New York was. Initially, it was called New Netherlands, because the Dutch had control of it first. But, as the latter half of the 17th Century wore on, it gradually came under the control of the British, a force so powerful that the Dutch dared not try to fight back.
