Answer/Explanation:
economic reforms
The Progressive Era included social reforms involving equality, suffrage, improvement in the general welfare of people, and education, and economic reforms aimed at monopolies, trusts, and working conditions that challenged the way capitalism was working in America.
C. the geography and climate of the area where they settled.
Answer:
Prior to the French and Indian War, the American Colonists wanted to extend their territory to the west of the Appalachian Mountains, in what is now the Midwest.
The British Crown opposed this because they did not want to have conflicts with the Native Americans in these lands, and with the French.
In the end, the conflict became impossible to avoid, and the British won, and the land was granted to the Empire.