European rulers encouraged rivalries between settlers for goods and land which continued the tensions from the
a. fur trade
c. the revolution
b. protestant reformation
d. all of the above

when people started to question traditional christian beliefs, they became criminals in the eyes of the church: they were accused of heresy and then, executed. the church held unbelievable power and anyone who tried to defy it or its beliefs, was demonized and persecuted.

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