Very long story short, farming and sugar, as well as a port to china, east india and asia. and the islands were a prime place for a navel base.
No they were not anti American
Intolerable acts were passed because the Britain were in deeply dept and thought American colonies needed to pay part of the expenses.
Answer:
A peninsula (usually a piece of an island) is a piece of land surrounded by water on 3 sides
An island is a piece of land surrounded by water on four sides, all around
A gulf is a large bay that is a piece of an ocean.
hope this helps
The passage is not showing up, but in general Gargantuan essentially means massive or large
