From pecos pueblo near the edge of the great plains to acoma and zuni in western new mexico, pueblo people had had enough of christianity. . backed by armed force and not reluctant to use the whip, catholic missionaries had set out to destroy the ancestral pueblo world in every respect, including what people could believe and how they could marry, work, live their lives, and pray. when the rebels could capture franciscan priests, they killed them, sometimes after torturing them. they destroyed catholic images, tore down mission churches, and defiled the vessels of the catholic mass. they put an end to marriages on christian terms. they restored the kivas where pueblo men had honored their ancestral kachinas. with catholic symbols and spanish practices gone, the pueblos set out to restore the lives their ancestors had lived.

–edward countryman "the pueblo revolt”

the pueblo revolt of 1680, also known as popé’s rebellion, may be most closely compared to

a. political revolutions by european-ruled colonies, such as america and india, for the right to self governance.

b. the revolution of the american colonists who did not want taxation without representation.

c. strikes by workers protesting unsafe working conditions and low wages, such as those during the american progressive era.

d. revolts by african enslaved persons against plantation owners in brazil and hispaniola for freedom from slavery and cultural oppression.