"various are the reports and conjectures of the causes of the present indian war. some impute it to an imprudent zeal in the magistrates of boston to christianize those heathen. . [t]he people, on the other side, for lucre and gain, entice and provoke the indians to the breach thereof, especially to drunkenness. . but the government of massachusetts . . [has] contributed much to their misfortunes." edward randolph's report on metacom's war, 1675 the ideas expressed in the excerpt most directly challenged the prevailing ideology in british colonial society that: choose 1 choose 1 (choice a) a native americans should be removed from areas of english settlement (choice b) b the government of massachusetts should lose its charter (choice c) c it was unwise to attempt to convert native americans to christianity (choice d) d use of alcohol should be severely limited or banned