Slaves were considered property. Their owners wanted to restrict their freedom so they wouldn't be as likely to escape.
Having on this day at 4 P.M. completed every arrangement necessary for our departure, we dismissed the barge and crew [2] with orders to return without loss of time to S. Louis, a small canoe with two French hunters accompanyed the barge; these men had assended the missouri with us the last year as engages. The barge crew consisted of six soldiers and two [blank] Frenchmen; two Frenchmen and a Ricara Indian also take their passage in her as far as the Ricara Vilages, at which place we expect Tiebeau [Tabeau] to embark with his peltry who in that case will make an addition of two, perhaps four men to the crew of the barge. We gave Richard Warfington, a discharged Corpl., the charge of the Barge and crew, and confided to his care likewise our dispatches to the government, letters to our private friends, and a number of articles to the President of the United States. One of the Frenchmen by the name of [NB?: Joseph] [3] Gravline an honest discrete man and an excellent boat-man is imployed to conduct the barge as a pilot; we have therefore every hope that the barge and with her our dispatches will arrive safe at St. Louis. Mr. Gravlin who speaks the Ricara language extreemly well, has been imployed to conduct a few of the Recara Chiefs to the seat of government who have promised us to decend in the barge to St. Liwis with that view.—
Answer:
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Clear land for grazing</h2>
Explanation:
I searched this question 5 times and the answers I have received is that the primary cause for deforestation is land grazing for animals. Since the only answer closest to that is clear land for grazing, that should be the correct answer. Again, I am not 100% sure but it should be correct. Otherwise my second choice would be clear land for farming.
I believe they were called "dream palaces" because everything seems possible in films/movies and you can use your imagination while in there.
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