Review the excerpt from Patrick Henry's "St. John's Church" speech: Ask yourselves how this gracious reception of our petition comports with these war-like preparations which cover our waters and darken our land. Are fleets and armies
necessary to a work of love and reconciliation? Have we shown ourselves so unwilling to be reconciled, that force must be called in to win back our love? Let us not deceive
ourselves, sir. These are the implements of war and subjugation; the last arguments to which kings resort. I ask, gentlemen, sir, what means this martial array, if its purpose be
not to force us to submission? Can gentlemen assign any other possible motive for it? Has Great Britain any enemy, in this quarter of the world, to call for all this accumulation
of navies and armies? No, sir, she has none. They are meant for us; they can be meant for no other. They are sent over to bind and rivet upon us those chains which the British
ministry have been so long forging.

What reason does Henry give for Britain sending ships and soldiers to the colonies?

O The British sent ships to help the colonies defend themselves.
The British have enemies in North America.
O The British plan to force the colonists to submit to the King.
O The British soldiers will train the colonists.