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.
