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- Louisiana Purchase Meeting, 1803
- Deal!
- Ok so America will buy the Louisiana Purchase at the cost of $15 million from the French
- Yes! Now i can go use this money to fight the British!
- Deal!
- Indian Removal Trail of Tears
- Die Natives
- Why us (panting)
- (Dead)
- Our house, Our land!
- My stuff!
- Texas Alamo
- Fire!
- Ahhhhhh
- Kill them all!
- This is apart of our country
- (Dead)
- From the perspective of the U.S the Louisiana purchase was a great deal, because America was getting overcrowded and the U.S needed the Mississippi river for trade and the new land for farmland. From the perspective of the French the Louisiana purchase was a good deal because it allowed the French to use the money that they got from the land to use for war because they were fighting Great Britain at the time.
- Mexican War
- From the perspective of the Indigenous people the Trail of Tears was a horrific event leaving them stranded from there homes and left with only what they had on their backs. From the perspective of the U.S the Trail of Tears was an event that allowed the getting rid of Indigenous people it allowed the U.S to send them on the Trail of Tears eventually leading most of the Cherokee to death and their land was now used by the colonists.
- Oregon Territory New Land
- From the perspective of the Anglo Americans the Alamo allowed the Anglo Americans to capture the Alamo and fight off the Mexican soldiers to show how they wanted more freedom and what they could do to gain it. From the perspective of the Mexican solders the Alamo was a mistake which led to the death of many Mexican solders, the Alamo was a problem.
- American Indians broken treaties
- From the perspective of the U.S. the Mexican war was important because there was the idea of manifest destiny and they wanted to capture and take hold of modern-day Arizona, California, New Mexico, Texas, Colorado, Nevada, and Utah for the transcontinental railroad. From the perspective of the Mexican government the war was in the way for the Mexican government and only caused more land to be lost.
- From the perspective of the U.S. the Oregon Territory was great land for crops and had gold for the Americans to prosper and grow their economy. From the perspective of the Native Americans the land was sacred to them and full of religious activities that were being stricken away from them.
- All the bison are gone
- Colonists are bad
- Are homes!
- Are land!
- New land yay
- Gold!
- Great for farming
- From the perspective of the U.S. breaking these treaties was important to be able to take more land and finish their goal of manifest destiny. From the perspective of the Native Americans this was an encroachment on their holy lands the lands that had been there for thousands of years it was horrific.
- Yes we can
- You can't take it
- This is are sacred land
- This is are home
- The trains are coming
- We have broken your treaties haha
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