In What Ways Did European States Engage in Economic and Political

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.