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The correct answer is D. enforce new laws in the South. The problem was that there were still a lot of racially discriminatory laws in the south and a lot of social discrimination which made it difficult to enforce new laws,such as the prohibiton of racial discrimination of voting.
D is the one, but it is a trick question. Catholic Spain DID try to get the Netherlands to convert to Catholicism and remain under Spanish rule, but it never worked! The Netherlands resisted, and asked for (and got) English help in resisting the Spanish overlords. It led to the Thirty Years War, in which the Netherlands fought back against the Spanish.
Spain tried everything from the Inquisition to bloody reprisals, and the persecution of the Dutch Protestants. The English "loaned" Willliam of Orange to the Netherlands, who defeated the Spanish army.
A would be the most accurate answer