A Chen Indian Removal Act
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- I will offer you the Louisiana Territory for $15 million from France. Therefore doubling the size of the USA.
- Americans bought the Louisiana territory for $15 million, from France. Therefore doubling the size of the USA, but Native americans were already there.
- OK, I will purchase it.
- Louisiana Purchase
- Lewis and Clark
- Wow, look at all this beauty, there's a variety of game.
- 123 miles of Lewis and Clark's 8,000 mile journey was spent in Kansas. said Kansas had great beauty and that it was amazing. But Kansas was already inhabited by Native Americans.
- Indeed, The deer seem plentiful, and there is abundance of wild raspberries.
- Zebulon Pike
- Would you look at that, this is a desert. This land is worthless, these vast plains may become in time equally celebrated as the sandy deserts of Africa.
- Zebulon Pike was the first American to travel the territory by land. He described Kansas as a desert and thought it was worthless.
- Stephen Long
- This land does not look so good. Ah, I should call this "The Great American Desert."
- Stephen Long traveled by steamboat. He called Kansas "The Great American Desert."
- Andrew's Speech
- Andrew Jackson said good farming land should not go to savages. He thought the Native Americans wasted the land.
- "What good man would prefer a country covered with forests and ranged by a few thousand savages to our extensive Republic, studded with cities, towns, and prosperous farms embellished with all the improvements which art can devise or industry execute, occupied by more than 12,000,000 happy people, and filled with all the blessings of liberty, civilization and religion?"
- Yeah, follow me!
- During the Indian Removal Act, Native Americans were forced to live in Kansas and other areas. Many tribes found living conditions to be unfamiliar and difficult.
- You are going to live in Kansas and other areas whether you like it or not!
- Indian Removal Act
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