A) A fort was established and many were killed by diseases
Lewis and Clark's expedition was not positive to the native of Mandan village the most devastating epidemic was the smallpox outbreak in the year 1837 killing a lot of people. The epidemic played an important factor in uniting the surviving Mandans and Hidatsa who later engaged in trade, farming and hunting.
The large states holding vast amounts of western land ceded the land to the government under the Articles so that all the states could share in the wealth of those lands.
The 13 colonist is. 13 state in the northwest. They were under power by a he British. Where they had mercantilism and pass raw materials. Thomas Jefferson and the colonist were mad because the British were taxing on every single things. So Thomas Jefferson wrote the declaration independence which is the revolutionary war. Which made America the United state of America.