The correct answer is A) Virginia. C) Georgia. E) South Carolina.
According to the lesson, the three colonies founded for strictly economic reasons were Virginia, Georgia, and South Carolina.
Not all the English conies in North America were founded for religious purposes as the Plymouth colony in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. The Puritans were trying to settle in a new place where they could express their religious thoughts freely.
There were colonies like the first one, Jamestown Virginia (1607) that were founded with the sole purpose of becoming wealthier working the land and make it lucrative. The London Company received the charter from King James I to sponsor the trip to the Americas with the colonists.