He is remembered for investigating corruption in municipal government in American cities and for his leftist values.
The first set of people who
spurred American settlement of Oregon were American missionaries to Indians. November
29, 1847, thirteen of these missionaries, including Marcus Whitman and his wife
Narcissa were massacred by a party of Cayuse Native Americans (Whitman Massacre) for allegedly poisoning
200 natives in his medical care. This accusation is now understood to be as a
result of Whitman’s inability to end the measles outbreak among the Native
Americans, and as a result was held responsible for succeeding deaths.
Answer:
The Colonists wanted independence from Great Britain because the king created unreasonable taxes, those taxes were created because Britain just fought the French and Indians. England decided that since they fought on American soil, then it was only fair to make Colonists pay for it.
It was easier to get there from other places in the country
