I offer the land for $15 million. Will you take it?
Yes.
Lewis and Clark
This land has great beauty and a variety of game. The deer seemed plentiful. Abundance of wild raspberries.
We've only looked around for 123 miles, but I think it's good.
Zebulon Pike
This land is so worthless. It's so dry!
During the Louisiana purchase, the French offered them land for $15 million dollars. They didn't know what the land completely looked like, but they accepted it anyway.
Stephen Long
This is a great american desert
Lewis and Clark explored the Louisiana Purchase and thought the land was good, but they only traveled 123 miles out of the 8,000 miles there were.
Jackson's Speech
Pike was the first american to travel the territory by land. He said it is to dry and worthless.
Indian Removal Act
Long traveled by steamboat. He said that the land was like a great american desert.
Jackson speech was about informing congress about the removal of the indian tribes living east of the Mississippi river.