Question

English settlers in the New World wanted a. A monarchy in which the king had all the power because this system had worked well in England. b. To have the rights for self-government. c. A dictatorship in which the minister of the church served as the dictator. d. None of the above

Answer 1

The correct answer is letter B.

Explanation: What motivated a trip of English settlers to the "new world" was fundamental to the discovery of precious goals: gold and silver.

Colonization in America had very precise objectives: to divert, besides promoting or graduating the Monarchy, to make extraordinary profits possible. The economic activity that most concentrated Spanish interest in New World was the mining of precious metals: gold and silver. Mining was the articulating axis of the Spanish colonial economy.