<span>Before the Louisiana purchase, the US Territory extended to the east bank of the Mississippi river, but no further. When Napoleon sold the Louisiana territory to Jefferson, that purchase doubled the size of the United States... suddenly, the US owned the Great Plains, the Midwest, the eastern Rockies, and a piece of the Gulf of Mexico. </span>
C a long drought and famine
Explanation:
because they were used to their everyday life and didn't like introductions of new cultures and myths because they feared chances of rebellion and wars
wanting to not be able to see inside there food so they know all the contents