Final answer:
The crop desired by the arriving colonists that they intended to grow was tobacco, which was a lucrative and controversial product. The correct option is d.
Step-by-step explanation:
The crop that people arriving in the colonies wanted to grow was tobacco. Tobacco was the most lucrative product of the Chesapeake colonies and a crop so controversial that monarchs in Europe and China attempted to ban its use.
It did not originate in the New World; instead, it was introduced there in the Columbian Exchange. Tobacco was also the crop that most enslaved laborers in the Americas were used to grow.
This is in contrast to crops like cotton, which became the major commercial crop of the antebellum South, especially after the invention of the cotton gin by Eli Whitney. The correct option is d.