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.
The U.S. justified its involvement in the Vietnam War by stating that they were fighting against communism. At the time, the Soviet Union was seen as a huge threat and there was a rivalry between the two nations.
Difference between Shays' and Whiskey: Shays' rebellion was under the Articles of Confederation and the weak government and was unable to support, with force, the state of MA in order to aid in the defeat of the rebellion. The Whiskey Rebellion, under the Constitution, it became evident that the government was capable of enforcing the law.
Some of the main points Thomas Jefferson explain to John Dickinson about the Louisiana purchase were:
- The sole dominion of the Mississippi, excluding those bickerings with foreign powers, securing the course of a peaceable nation.
- The pretension to extend the western territory of Louisiana to the Rio Norte, or Bravo; and still stronger the eastern boundary to the Rio Perdido between the rivers Mobile & Pensacola.
- Ratification and payment, for a thing beyond the constitution, and rely on the nation to sanction an act done for its great good, without its previous authority.
- Annex New Orleans to the Mississippi territory and shut up all the rest from settlement for a long time to come, endeavoring to exchange some of the country there unoccupied by Indians for the lands held by the Indians on this side the Mississippi.
- The impost which will be paid by the inhabitants ceded will pay half the interest of the price given: so that only half will be added to the debt.
By getting rid of harsh policies and confucianism.