Which factors accounted for the fierce resistance to the efforts of Phillip II to impose higher taxes and greater Spanish control over the Netherlands

Catholics resisted higher taxes and increased control from Spain because they valued their level of independence. -Catholics feared new limitations on freedom of religion that would result from greater Spanish control

Explanation:

its main object was the establishment of "settlement houses" in poor urban areas, in which volunteer middle-class "settlement workers" would live, hoping to share knowledge and culture with, and alleviate the poverty of, their low-income neighbors.