Answer:
critics of the government were murdered or imprisoned
The united states was still a colonies that undercontroll by Britain(England) so Britain forced the united states to fight for them. Therefore, the answer is B.
Petition: Please provide governors as you agreed to in our contract.
<span>Answer: No more governors. I'll tax you more instead. (Insult and injury) </span>
<span>Petition: Please send soldiers to protect us from criminals and natives. </span>
<span>Answer: I'll send soldiers only to collect more taxes from you. (Another insult. Another injury)</span>
I'm not sure I'd say that the Great War was more "protracted" than 19th century wars. The Great War lasted four years and some months. In the 19th century, the Civil War in the United States also lasted over four years.
The biggest difference in the Great War, early in the 20th century, was how massively destructive it was. Heavy industrialization and militarization by European nations made for a conflict that involved many nations with enormously devastating ways of inflicting damage on one another.