These were the earliest people they lived in Tipis and killed buffalo and other animals nearby. They are called Native Americans they had tribes so they could hunt and feast.
Zebulon Pike
This looks like Africa
Present Thomas Jefferson was looking for ways to expand USA territory when French and Great Britain were fighting it was the perfect option. So they brought $15,000,000 for french so they could go and explore there.
Jackson's Speech to Congress
Lewis and Clark were the first people to discover the land but they only discovered 123 miles. They said "Great beauty, variety of games, deer seemed plentiful, an abundance of wild raspberries and Lewis and Clark smelled the Arkansas river it smelled like poop.
Indian Removal Act
Zebulon Pike was the first person to explore the west side of Kansas. Pike said "These vast plains may become in time equally celebrated as sandy deserts of Africa.
Jackson makes a speech to congress and he said "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 improvement which art can devise pr industry execute, occupied by more than 12,000,000 happy people, and filled with all the blessings of liberty civilization nd religion.
In 1830 the Indian Removal Act the governs thought that the Kansas land wasn't too great so forced they made Native American Indians go to Kansas and survive there. A lot of people died there it was difficult to get over because it was so far plus you had to walk since there was no transportation.