Most likely the colonists' response to th Stamp Act seeing that they refused to buy many goods from Britain following the Stamp Act.
The correct answer in this case is liberalism.
Socialism is the opposite as it entails (Among other things) the idea of fast changes, if need be with revolution. Neither does utilitarianism talk about social progress through reform.
Libertarians talk exactly about what the question is about; one of the main tennets of liberalism is that they prefer and would like to witness social change through reforms.
The answer is B because the text mentioned the author
