French was fighting Great Britain to try and get money to double the size of the United States.
Long put on his map that it was like an american desert.
Great Britain
1803
Lewis and Clark
123 Miles
...123 miles of our trip were in Kansas and it was very good. We like Kansas a lot...
18,000 Miles
1804
Pike
...Kansas was like desert and it was horrible...
Forced north and east Americans to move to Kansas so they can live there.
1806
Long
Long's Map
American Desert
1819
Jackson's Speech
Jackson's speech made people decide to kick the people out where they were living so they could live there.
"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?"
1829
Indian Act Removal
You need to move to Kansas! We want to live here.
1830
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