Indian Removal Act
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- In todays money it would be $343 Million
- Hello! Here is the $15 Million for the louisiana purchase.
- Thanks! We french are in a poor economic situation
- What americans bought
- The louisiana purchase was bought from the french to the americans for $342 million.
- What americans Owned
- Wow! This place Is so Lively and nice.
- Yes! People should populate here!
- Lewis and clark expedition
- They had Traveled 8,000 miles for there journey
- They had said “Great beauty...variety of game...deer seemed plentiful...abunda-nce of wild raspberries."
- Jacksons speech to congress
- AGHH! This land is worthless, its a dessert!
- But could it be cultivated?
- “These vast plains...may become in time equally celebrated as the sandy deserts of Africa…”-Zebulon Pike
- Zebulon Pike
- This is the Great American Desert!
- Stephen H. long traveled by Steamboat to journey the louisiana purchase.
- Stephan H. Long
- This does not seem fair?
- Quite a lot of people in need of land
- YES!
- “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?”
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- Why are you moving us???
- Im sorry but Jackson's speech persuade the congress to move you all.
- Different tribes moved to the same area so tensions rise between the tribes and to add to that the conditions were different from plants to weather. This all happened because americans did not think it could be cultivated
- The indian removal
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