They were hated, tortured, and people attempted to kill them until they reached Utah. They called it their "Zion".
C is the answer because, if you look back at the questions, the Lords Proprietor wanted to rule all of the colonies. So they tried to create a ruling elite.
Rene Decartes was a French philosopher born in 1596 a time when many long held benefits where changing. His new way of thinking led him to decide to doubt everything until he could prove it. His goal was to achieve certainity through methodical and logical questioning.