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  • President Thomas Jefferson was looking for ways to expand the United States territory, French have been fighting wars with Great Britain and were desperate for money. Bought for $15 million from the French ($342 million today) Doubled the size of the United States and opened up possibilities for westward expansion
  • SOLD
  • SOLD to Thomas Jefferson
  • Lewis and Clark, 123 miles of their 8,000-mile journey was spent in Kansas.“Great beauty...variety of game...deer seemed plentiful...abundance of wild raspberries.” they said.
  • Same, Lewis
  • You know what Clark, I think I like it here
  • Zebulon Pike, the first American to travel the territory by land. Described Kansas as a desert --thought land was worthless. “These vast plains...may become in time equally celebrated as the sandy deserts of Africa…” Pike’s description started a great debate--could this land be cultivated?
  • eww.. this place sucks
  • Stephen H. Long, traveled by steamboat. On a map, Long labeled the area to become Kansas as “The Great American Desert”. This view of Kansas as a desert stuck, and it influenced the US government’s settlement policies for years to come.
  • I really don't know what they were talking about when they said this place was good
  • Jackson’s Speech to Congress “What good man would prefer a country covered with forests and ranged by a few thousand savages to our extensive Republic, studded with cities, towns, and prosperous farms embellished with all the improvements which art can devise or industry execute, occupied by more than 12,000,000 happy people, and filled with all the blessings of liberty, civilization and religion?” he said
  • Move the Savages! Move the savages!
  • The Indian Removl act, because of explorer’s description of Kansas, the U.S. government didn’t think Americans could farm/survive. Forced East Americans Indians to relocate to Kansas and other areas. Many tribes found living conditions to be unfamiliar and difficult. Tensions rise between tribes.
  • Your moving to Kansas
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