Select the best description of why most wealthy northern merchants supported Alexander Hamilton's ideas:
a. Merchants profited from his economic policies, which included high tariffs on foreign trade.
b. Merchants favored a weak central government and low tariffs.
c. Merchants feared that if the common man gained too much power, they might endanger foreign trade.
d. Merchants favored an economy largely devoted to farming, and to a lesser degree, trade and manufacturing.