In What Ways Did European States Engage in Economic and Political

question 23

Multiple Choice

In what ways did European states engage in economic and political competition in the New World?

• A) They began organizing mass emigration to the New World in order to gain a foothold in the newly discovered territories.
• B) They chartered private joint-stock companies to import new goods and natural resources, and they invested in the burgeoning slave trade and plantation economies in the New World.
• C) They organized special shipping routes that provided a means of tourism for wealthy European elites in addition to bringing goods and raw materials back from the New World.
• D) They began to colonize the African coastline and interior in order to set up stronger bases for slave and commercial trade with the New World.

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