American settlers and American Indians often clashed as settlement spread across the West during that era
Well, this is very easy, first up; what's a fugitive?
A fugitive is a person that has escaped a place/or is in hiding;to avoid arrest/persecution.
So traveling by wagons,railroads,and walking makes sense. Except for one, slave ships, that makes no sense at all. Why would fugitive slaves travel on "slave ships?"
Answer:
They both wanted to stand up for freedom and its principles.
Yes, to stop communism from spreading, and to change other countries from communism to capatilism