The correct answer is B) Ideas of the Enlightenment assured British colonists in their belief in having rights such as self-government as British citizens.
The events of the 1680s, such as the Dominion of New England, inspired colonial resistance to British control in that "Ideas of the Enlightenment assured British colonists in their belief in having rights such as self-government as British citizens."
The New England Dominion of 1686 was the merge of the colonies of Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire, into one single colony called the New England Dominion.
Of course, colonists strongly opposed to the British decision and the imposition of Edmund Andros as governor of the Dominion. They considered Andros and arrogant and inaccessible person. Puritans were infurie¿ated when he imposed the Church of England as the official religion of the Dominion. Colonists also rejected the new taxes.
