What was the purpose of the West India Company?

To regulate and protect the contraband trade already carried by the Dutch and establish colonies.

Explanation:

4 copper and gold, the california gold rush is why im pretty sure.

monopolies  came to the united states with the colonial administration. the large-scale public works needed to make the new world hospitable to old world immigrants required large companies to carry them out. these companies were granted exclusive contracts for these works by the colonial administrators. even after the american revolution, many of these colonial holdovers still functioned due to the contracts and land

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