The answer your looking for is C
The answer is
They were persecuted in England
They wanted religious freedom
100% true, as an old timer i remember those days
The correct answer here is that they enacted policies that would benefit the merchants.
In mercantilism, the point was to take all the raw materials from the colonies for the mainland, for example the Great Britain. Those materials would be used to create goods which would then be sent and sold back to the colonies. That task fell to merchants who used the deals with the government to set their shop in the colonies and sell their goods. In return they paid for the army.
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