Answer: b. religious freedom
Step-by-step explanation:
In 1633, Cecilius Calvert the 2nd Lord of Baltimore who was a Catholic founded the colony of Maryland so that he and other English Catholics like him could exercise a freedom to practice their Catholicism in peace as England being a Protestant country had placed restrictions on Catholics.
Thomas Hook-er established the colony of Connecticut with a 100 others in a bid to practice being Puritans without persecution or disturbance.
Roger Williams founded the colony of Rhode Island in 1644 by buying the land from the Narragansett Indians. He was a fervent believer in the notion that people should have religious freedom and that the Church and the State should be separate entities. This was a view that got him banished from the colony of Massachusetts Bay which was what led him to Rhode Island.