Why did the settlers in the Runaway Scrape head toward Louisiana?

They were trying to get to American soil to escape Santa Anna’s army and take shelter in another country. Many of them had come from America and wanted to seek refuge there.

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the monroe doctrine is the best known u.s. policy toward the western hemisphere. buried in a routine annual message delivered to congress by president james monroe in december 1823, the doctrine warns european nations that the united states would not tolerate further colonization or puppet monarchs.