Answer: I think that former offenders have hard times fitting back into the community because they are judged by their pasts and they become excluded from their social class. They might think differently, act differently, and may want a clean slate. This can cause the individual to become more violence, get into more crime, and drive them away.
It would have to be the first since the British gave that land to America after the Revolutionary war. So they left that Native American to the Patriots.
Isolationist views were strong in the USA after the end of WWI. The Senate refused to ratify the Treaty of Versailles and the adhesion treaty of the League of Nations. Politicians and the public opinion were afraid of any agreements that could mean commitments in foreign conflicts.