The correct answer to this open question is the following.
Although there are no options attached, we can say the following.
No, the settlers could have not been interested in the political events in the east because they had many issues and problems to resolve as the pioneers they were, trying to settle in those new and unknown lands.
Pioneer Daniel Boone helped opened a new portion of land for settlement purposes through the Cumberland Gap in the Northwest Territory.
Daniel Boone(1734-1820) was an explorer from Pennsylvania that took some settlers to those territories in the Northwest, although he had the rejection of the Cherokee tribes of the region.
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the interior Great Wall stretches from Xinzhou in Shanxi Province, via Hebei Province to Beijing Badaling.
i think it was built to double protect the land and the people.
