Early seventeenth-century English advocates of North American colonization argued that colonies would __________.
a. serve as places of refuge for religious dissenters
b. be pleasing to God
c. demonstrate England’s global dominance
d. produce profits and supply England with raw materials
d. produce profits and supply England with raw materials
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