First of all, most colonists were from Britain. This connected links to the British, so the British could come into America when they wanted. King George the Third implemented many acts into our Nation which angered the colonists. The more acts the King placed on America, the more opposed the colonists got. Then there was the French-Indian War which killed plenty of our men because of how cocky the British were.
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The answer would be New Mexico.
Lewis and Clark were to report on the geography and natural resources of the West, to make contact with Native Americans, and to establish an American claim to the land west of the Rocky Mountains
The correct answer is <span>They fled to escape persecution from government soldiers.
In the paragraph, they explain that they fled because the soldiers were racketeering them. They would expect the locals to give them goods in the form of rubber or something else and if they couldn't provide they would get killed by the soldiers so they fled out of fear for their lives. The other possible answers don't fit the description in the excerpt.</span>