Indian Removal Act Storyboard
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- Louisiana Purchase
- $15 million for Louisiana Territory
- Is he serious!
- Lewis and Clark
- Wow, what a beauty
- Zebulon Pike
- What!!!!!!
- In 1803, President Thomas Jackson bought the Louisiana Territory from the French for $15 million. This Trade doubled the size of united states and opened up possibilities for westward expansion.
- Stephen Long
- I am not going to sent my people there.
- This place is not the same as it was described.
- Their 8,000 mile journey was spent in Kansas. They described Kansas as great beauty, variety of game, deer plentiful, wild raspberries abundant.
- Jackson Speech
- Hello everybody!
- First American to travel the territory by land. Described Kansas as a desert- worthless land and he said that the land was a desert where nothing grow.
- Indian Removal Act
- Traveled by steam boat, and described Kansas as unfit for cultivation and uninhabitable by people who depend on agriculture.
- Jackson declared that removal would strengthen the southwestern frontier.
- They forced east Americans Indians to relocate to Kansas and other areas. Many Tribes found living conditions to be unfamiliar and difficult.
- Are you okay?
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