The correct option is: "filing lawsuits for equality."
Indigenous peoples lived in what is now the United States for thousands of years before the European colonizers began to arrive, especially from England, after 1600. The Spaniards built small settlements in Florida and the Southwest, and the French at along the Mississippi River and the Gulf Coast. In the 1770s, thirteen British colonies contained two and a half million people along the Atlantic coast east of the Appalachians.
