If you refer to Meriwether Lewis (Meriwether was his mother's surname actually), an American Explorer and a leader of the Lewis and Clark expedition, partially named after him, then he was born in the Colony of Virginia, a British Colony and part of the British Empire.
Yes, it is true that electrons in an excited state are more likely to enter into chemical reactions, since this state means that they have more energy, and are further away from the nucleus.
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well one thing you could do is study and or check your work before submitting.
