E. They feared being imprisoned for defying the British government.
You didn't provide possible answers, however, the sturm un drang movement centered on rejection of all things traditional, aesthetic, rational, related to the enlightenment period, or anything similar. They wanted to completely break themselves free from all tradition, so if anything fits the description then that is your answer.
Migration Out of the Plains during the Depression. During the Dust Bowl years, the weather destroyed nearly all the crops farmers tried to grow on the Great Plains. ... Many once-proud farmers packed up their families and moved to California hoping to find work as day laborers on huge farms.
Central and West Africa, who had been sold by other West Africans to Western European slave traders