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- I'm gonna go get us some food be right back, let me grab my bow.
- THE EARLIEST PEOPLE
- I'm finally almost done with this stupid corn.
- Okay, I'll go finish some new clothes I'm working on.
- LOUSIANA PURCHASE 1803
- He's never gonna make this deal.
- Does...Around $15 million work?
- That land is worthless. I'll take 15 million, let's get this war over with!
- Yes! Perfect.
- LEWIS and CLARK 1804
- This tree is huge! It could fit a horse, we've gotta tell the president.
- This land is amazing look at the pond!
- The earliest people had to adapt to their new homes. They had to fin a new way of doing things. They got new houses, had to grow food, and sew clothes. They got new tools and new methods like gardening and pottery vessels.
- ZEBULON PIKE 1806
- What is this place?! It's "worthless." Who'd want to live here? Definitely a no from me.
- In 1803, Thomas Jefferson wanted to expand the U.S. territory. They bought land from the French and ended up buying the Louisiana territory. The French were in need of money to end their war against Great Britain and had some land to give up, so it worked out for both of them.
- STEPHEN H. LONG 1819
- Lewis and Clark were one of the first people to explore America. They traveled 123 miles of it in Kansas and the whole expedition was 8,000. miles long. They thought the land was plentiful and a perfect place to live. They wanted to tell Thomas Jefferson, so they wrote in their journals and wrote about their journey.
- INDIAN REMOVAL ACT
- Pike traveled by land and when he got there, his opinion on the land was completely different from Lewis and Clark. He didn't think we should live there until we could cultivate the land or make it better. He thought the land was "worthless." When he got back, he started lots of debates about if we could even cultivate the land and if we should live there or not.
- Long traveled by steamboat and he named Kansas "The Great American Desert" When he named this, it stuck and that's kind of what its been stuck for a ton of years later. Long thought along the same lines as Pike and thought that it wouldn't be the best place to settle.
- Okay this isn't so bad, but I don't think Americans should live here first.
- The Indian removal act was when the early Indians were forced to live in Kansas and other places in America. The living conditions were tough and very hard to live in. The government didn't think Americans could cultivate the land or survive, so they sent the East American Indians there first to do it all for them.
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