Answer:
Option: b. were intended to locate the Northwest Passage.
Explanation:
The first French explorer Jacques Cartier was sent to New World to find the wealth and to find a route to Asia. Though Cartier never succeeded in finding the Northwest Passage after making three attempts in Newfoundland. On his first route he finds St. Lawrence River and claimed the land in the name of France, on the second voyage he found Quebec and in the third, he failed.
One factor was barbed wire. As farmers and ranchers wisened up, they used the wire to fence in their cattle, destroying the use of cowboys, and taking away one aspect of the "wide open west". Herds of cattle took over the plains and destroyed the grass. In 1883 the big drought struck and water streams dried up and prairie fires grazed. Also the barbed wire and the natural disasters.
Causes for the American Revolution were: Stamp Acts, Boston Tea Party/Intolerable Acts, French and Indian War, Townshend Acts, Boston Massacre, Thomas Paine and First and the Second Continental Congress. The effects of the American Revolution were: Treaty of Paris, Declaration of Independence, Bill of Rights, and so on. The causes for the French Revolution were: problems with money like low amounts that occurred in war, people were growing hungry, aggressive taxes only for the lower class and so on. <span />