If I am not mistaken D is your answer.
Smith argued that by giving everyone freedom to produce and exchange goods as they pleased (free trade) and opening the markets up to domestic and foreign competition, people's natural self-interest would promote greater prosperity than with stringent government regulations.
Colonial era: british
WW1: American
WW2: British (America for the atom bomb... but thats just one weapon. and they massed produced everything else really)
after that: AMERICA!!
The way that england reduce colonial is that he always wanted things his ways people listen to him
