English colonizers attempted to justify appropriating Indian lands based on the idea that:_______
A. the Indians had massacred so many whites that Indian leaders had offered the right to their lands
B. they had a "God-given" right to hunt, farm, and fish on the "unsettled" land and waters
C. they had an important fur trade and friendly relations with the Indians, much as the French colonizers did
D. the Spanish had transferred the right to New England and the Chesapeake to the English as a part of a treaty.