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- 1803 - Louisiana Purchase
- We'll buy!
- Broke :(
- 1804 - Lewis and Clark
- 4 out of 5 stars. Pretty sights and lots of game but poopy water.
- 1806 - Zebulon Pike
- Poopy water = Poopy land
- The Louisiana Purchase was bought for $15 million from the French. It doubled the size of the United States.
- 1819 - Stephen H. Long
- Yep, looks like a desert to me.
- Lewis & Clark were famous explorers who explored the east and spent some time in Kansas; they said that you could cultivate it. They spent 123 miles of 8,000 in Kansas.
- 1829 - Jackson's Speech
- Should we let stinky people have that land? No!
- Pike explored part of Kansas and said it was worthless. He was also the first American to travel the territory by land.
- 1830 - Indian Removal Act
- Meanies!
- Long travelled by steamboat. He also labelled Kansas as 'The Great American Desert'.
- Andrew Jackson convinced the government to pass the Indian Removal Act. He called the Native Americans "savages".
- East Native Americans were forced to move to reservations. Tensions rose and the tribes did not normally have much contact.
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