Explain why the colonies had fewer people in poverty than England. What economic and social conditions were at the root of this difference? For those who were in poverty in the colonies, what led to this condition increasing in the eighteenth century, and what was life like for them?

Well, by looking at your question and also your answers that you have provided your answer to your question is going to be choice a) protestants.this is because they had been a member of or follower of any of the western christian churches. these churches had been separated  from the roman catholic  church and they follow the principles  of reformation, and baptism, and also the luthern churches, and finally  the  presbyterian.i hope this mark me as brainiest