One thing i know is they used the surrounding geography. The american colonist knew the land so well they could easily traverse the land and plan "sneek attacks" against the british
Before the American Civil War, during slavery times, there was a series of anti-literacy laws that prohibited slaves from learning how to write or read. Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, North and South Carolina, and Virginia passed anti-literacy laws, some of them punished the person who attempted to teach slaves to read and write a fine of 100 pounds and 6 months in prison.
Because of that, once slavery was over and Reconstruction created the Freedmen Bureau, former slaves wanted to read and write and be a part of society.
The correct answer should be D.) the changing American values in the 1920s
They were not really lost, they just felt lost in the society that changed following world war I and they felt as if disoriented in this new world order.
