Answer:
400 years ago America consisted of a few colonies, financed by private investments, whose inhabitants were mainly religious minorities.
The experiment was both a religious and an economic one: to develop a colony, in the other side of the world, where a religious, homogeneous minoroty could develop an economy, mostly self-sustaining, but also with the goal of trading with the local inhabitants.
He wanted a way to protect himself from the French people.
All were influential states in the 18th century that went through socially radical revolutions
C is the best answer but all are right