Answer:
The colonists hated to be taxed. They wanted their rights as British citizens, and they didn't have them.
Explanation:
This can easily be answered by looking up their names or "the Watergate scandal" on Google. If you didn't have access to Google, however, you should know that the Watergate scandal involved former President Nixon spying on his political opponents at the Watergate hotel. Although this is not infallible logic, if you had to make an 'educated guess', Nixon was the president at the time. The president lives in Washington D.C, the US capital. This should lead you to believe that the Washington Post might have uncovered this scandal. Indeed those two reporters worked for the Washington Post.
C- colonization era
Constitution era obviously isnt it
Reform era was known as the progressive era
the early republic era had to with transfer of govt
thus leaving colonization era as the last option