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What was the purpose of the West India Company?

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To develop its American claims.

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Its purpose was to open trade in North and South America and to build forts, maintain troops and challenge Spanish teade in America, especially in the West Indies.

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To regulate and protect the contraband trade already carried by the Dutch and establish colonies.

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