Why was investment wealth centered in the northeast?

southerners were investing in their own industries
large sums of money had been made in foreign investments
banking centers had been established by the government
profits from the sea had created a center of finance

The answer to your question would actually be

D. Profits from the sea had created a center of finance.

I also had this question and D was the correct answer.

john smith was the first englishman to sail around the world. francis bacon served as attorney general and lord chancellor of england. he took up aristotelian ideas, arguing for an empirical, inductive approach, known as the scientific method, which is the foundation of modern scientific inquiry.