Which identifies the strongest influence on eighteenth-century colonia

Which identifies the strongest influence on eighteenth-century colonial Americans?

a. They still confronted the “howling wilderness” that previous generations had encountered.
b. They still lived in geographic isolation as in the seventeenth century.
c. They could not escape the economic and cultural influence of Britain.
d. They had completely escaped the economic and cultural influence of Britain.
e. They gradually changed their religious beliefs during their lives in the colonies.

ANSWER
C