"A" would be the correct answer. Even though the main goal of the voyage was to find a different sea route to Asia. Bartolome and other Portuguese explorer have also made stops along the African coast and started to realize how could of an alternative they would be compared to the Mediterranean trade routes.
I'm positive with the answer tho
In 1492, Christopher Columbus, supported by the Spanish government, undertook a voyage to find a new route to Asia and inadvertently encountered “new” lands in the Americas full of long established communities and cultures. Other European countries quickly followed suit and began to explore and invade the New World.
Governed constitutionally as one single entity, with one constitutionally created legislature.
Answer: As Founder and statesman, Jefferson thought broadly about the virtues Americans would need to cultivate in order to preserve and perfect their experiment in republican self-government.