Spain became rich by stealing the wealth of the American colonies.
Answer: there was a more prosperous economy (B).
Explanation:
The first permanent English settlement in North America was Plymouth (1620). In the Plymouth colony, the Pilgrims faced problems such as diseases and bad weather. The Pilgrims owed money to <em>the Plymouth Company</em> which financed their trip to America, but could not make any profit through fishing and agriculture because of these unfavorable conditions.
The Massachusetts Bay Colony, on the other hand, was the most profitable colony. The settlers earned money from shipbuilding, fishing, producing lumber, etc.
The orders were to take everything that they can, and burn and ruin everything that they can't take. The idea was to destroy infrastructure completely so as to weaken the southern population and the southern support for the war. They would burn farms and pillage everything leaving nothing standing.
Freed slaves or the enslaved negroes/black farmers migrated to western territories because the west was new and the United States Agrarian Reform had promised them a free land which is forty (40) acres and a mule under the Homestead Act of 1862.
