England’s Jamestown settlement can best be compared to the colonization efforts of a) the French, in that the colonists planned to develop small, self-sufficient communities and open trade with native populations. b) the Spanish, in that the colonists planned to establish colonies for increased political gain. c) the Dutch, in that the colonists planned to grow cash crops to ship back to England. d) the Portuguese, in that the colonists planned to establish missionary communities to convert native populations to Christianity.

c) the Dutch, in that the colonists planned to grow cash crops to ship back to England.

Explanation:

The colonists who founded the Jamestown settlement, looked for precious metals and agricultural products that could be exploited and provide a strong trade between the colony and England.

Although one of the main reasons for the creation of this settlement was the search for religious freedom, the colonists were interested in a cormerium of precious metals and commercial crops, mainly because in that period England was going through a crisis in food scarcity.

The colonists had great difficulty in establishing agricultural plantations and finding gold and only managed to make commercial harvests after many attempts and failures, when they finally managed to establish a tobacco trade.