The answer is (because of the illegal trade they were doing with other countries.)
Since you provide no options, a couple of things that a specific economy would do if it has extra capital resources available is :
- Increase it's overall productions
Since it got more capital, they're able to buy more materials and pay more workers
or
- Make an investment.
By using that capital to buy an asset
In 1793, Eli Whitney invented a simple machine that influenced the history of the United States. He invented a cotton gin that was popular in the South. The South became the cotton producing part of the country because Whitney's cotton gin was able to successfully pull out the seeds from the cotton bolls.
Answer: The townspeople threw object at the soldiers.
March 5, 1770 was the day of the Boston Massacre, where a mob of American colonists gather around the Boston Customs House to protest the occupation of soldiers in Boston. So, they began throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks at the Soldiers on duty to protect the Building. As the mob got bigger, the soldier became more worry about their safety and thus open fired in the Boston Townspeople.
Either option C or D, made the most sense