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- The Louisiana Purchase
- If you really want to expand America how about 15 million dollars?
- That is a deal.
- Lewis And Clark
- Everything is beautiful with good things hunt but this water tastes really bad.
- Zebulon Pike
- This is nothing like what Lewis and Clark told us
- In 1803America was looking to expand their country to get more land. During this time the french and great Britain were at war and french was despite for money. They sold the US a ton of land, nearly double the US size for 15 million dollars. This opened up opportunity for westward expansion.
- Stephen Long
- In 1804 Lewis and Clark were the first send explorers to go check out the new land. They went through 8,000 miles of new land only 123 miles being spent in Kansas. They said that there was great deer and a lot of game to kill for food, an abundance of wild berries, but the river water tasted horrible.
- Jacksons Speech
- In 1806 Zebulon Pike was the first American eexplorer to travel the territory by land. Pike only explored the western side of Kansas and described it as "very dry it is almost like a desert".
- Indian Removal Act
- In 1819 Stephen H Long traveled around the new land for the last time so the government could have a finial thought about what Kansas was like. Long traveled by steamboat, and what he saw he described as "The great American desert.
- In 1829 President Jackson made a speech to present to congress to agree that no American should have to travel what they call the great American desert, and he insisted that what he explained as savages should relocate to that land.
- In 1830 this act forced the native American tribes to move out west to lands on Kansas and other relative locations. The natives were not happy about this and grew tension between the two.
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