As we all study in American history, the Pilgrim ship Mayflower arrived at Cape Cod in November 1620 with 101 people on board.Due to the terms and conditions agreed upon by the European financiers of the voyage and the Pilgrims, everything created in the new colony in the first seven years would be divided equally among the investors and the colonists.That is, after subtracting the payment made to the investors in London who financed the trip, all accumulated wealth was to be common wealth among the Pilgrims - what the second governor of Plymouth, William Bradford, called "the common course and condition" (or communal stewardship of the land).However, by the spring of 1623, the colony, which had grown to about 150, was barely able to feed itself.On one occasion, newcomers found that there was no bread at all, only fish or a piece of lobster and water.According to Bradford, "...they began to think how they might raise as much corn as they could ... that they might not still thus languish in misery."

Based on your understanding of the principles of economics, which of the following policy actions did the colonists take in order to solve their problem of a lack of adequate production?Given that Bradford later described the outcome as bringing about "every good success," it is likely that the colony chose to:

a.persuade all colonists that "common ownership would "foster communion" among the Pilgrims.

b.assign to every family a parcel of land (as Bradford said,"...set corn every man for his own particular...")

c.establish a tax upon each colonist so that the government could operate more productive farms.

d.create collective farms, which 100 years later would be proven highly successful in China.