The correct answer is D) Hispaniola.
The city that gave the Spanish a strong foothold in southeast North America was Hispaniola.
We are talking about a strategic portion of land, an island in the Caribbean, that the Spaniards named on behalf their nationality, This was the island discovered by Christopher Columbus, on December 5, 1492, located in the West Indies. It is the region that today is the Dominican Republic and Haiti.
