The correct answer is A) by denying the New Lights churches’ legal status.
The Old Lights attempted to suppress the influence of the New Lights in Connecticut and Massachusetts by denying the New Lights churches’ legal status.
In the history of Connecticut and Massachusetts, Jonathan Edwards was of the most influential preachers of Protestantism during the First Great Awakening in the United States. He is remembered by his fearful sermon "Sinners in the Hands of An Angry God." He was a conservative religious man known as the Old Lights, that criticized the new revival of Protestantism and remained true to the conservative traditions.
The New Lights criticized and rejected the formal way of worship and praying of the Old Lights, and instilled a new form of following religious teachings. The New Lights were in favor of new and emotional ways to practice religion.
