Answer:
the Anasazi
Explanation:
Anasazi is one of the North American tribes that inhabited the place. Huge and magnificent cities were built by the Anasazi inhabitants. Etymologically, the word 'Anasazi' implies the "ancient outsiders". The inhabitants were proficient in growing crops and making pottery. The reason for the decline of civilization is estimated to be the attacks by the other tribes. While some historians predict that the exhaustion of the resources would be the reason for the decline.
Magna Carta was held to be the people's reaffirmation of rights against an oppressive ruler, a legacy that captured American suspicion of concentrated American power.
The colonists believed that leaders should obey the law and citizens had the right to trial by jury in both a criminal and a civil case, the right to a speedy trial, and protection from loss of life, liberty or property without due process of law...
It was before the era of railways hence waterways were critical factor. They determined the population centers access to trade. Examples rivers (New Orleans, Cincinnati), Great Lakes (Chicago, Detroit), canals (Milwaukee) and obviously sea port cities (New York)
I think it is Benedict Arnold