The correct answer is A. many farmers invested in land and equipment during the war.
Explanation:
Because these farmers invested a lot of money in land and equipment during the war, most of them took a mortgage or something equivalent for the time period in order to do that. After the war, they were unable to pay off their debts and so many of those farms were foreclosed, meaning, the farms were taken away from the farmers as they weren't able to meet their payment deadlines.
The cause are the investments and the effect are foreclosed farms due to missing payments.
It would be that "d. They refused to baptize native converts into the Christian faith", since the Spanish viewed this as a way of solidifying their efforts of religious conversion.
