Indian Removal Act
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- This is so wonderful! We just bought land from the French, and now have land twice the size of our old land!!
- Thomas Jefferson just bought the Louisiana Territory from the French. Now our land is double the size of the United States.
- Louisiana Purchase
- They spent 123 miles in Kansas out of their 8,000 mile Journey. They said that Kansas had great beauty, and a great variety.
- Wow this place is BEAUTIFUL!!!
- Lewis and Clark
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- 1804
- The Native Americans were forced out of their land, to go to Kansas. They were being put in Kansas because Pike and Long said it was a desert, and it wasn't worth living there.
- Pike was the first American to travel to Kansas by land. He described Kansas as a desert and thought the land was worthless.
- All this way for a desert!?! These vast plains...may become in time equally celebrated as the sandy deserts of Africa...
- Zebulon Pike
- Hmm... Just as Pike said, a sandy desert.
- Long traveled to Kansas by a steamboat. He also labeled Kansas on a map as "The Great American Desert".
- Stephen Long
- "..prefer a country covered with forests and ranged by a few thousand savages.."
- Jackson had a big speech to Congress. He talked about what kind of people would want land covered with forests and savages?
- Jackson's Speech to Congress
- GO!!! AT LEAST YOU GET A PLACE TO LIVE AT ALL!
- Indian Removal Act
- fpiwdhvoilh*speaking their language*
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