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Westward Expansion: By Kaamya Krishna

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  • The Louisiana Purchase
  • Yes, President Jefferson. I am excited to tell you that our mission is complete! Napoleon didn't only give us the port of New Orleans, but he offered us the whole Louisiana Territory for 15 million dollars!
  • Ah... Mr. Monroe! Is there any good news about our French purchase?
  • 2 and a half years later...
  • The Lewis and Clark Expedition
  • I hope President Jefferson will be happy with the research. Let's rest here for the night, shall we?
  • Hey William?... I'm tired. But guess what? We've reached the pacific in only a year and a half!
  • Indian Removal and Battle of Little Bighorn
  • Thomas Jefferson wanted to explore the land in the west. He wanted to make it a part of America. So he sent James Monroe to Napoleon of France to persuade him to make a deal to buy the Port of New Orleans. Napoleon didn't really want to give away land, but he needed lots of money to be in a war with Britain. So he gave away all his land for just $15 million.
  • Battle of the Alamo
  • Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, two famous explores were appointed by Thomas Jefferson to explore the Louisiana purchase with 40 men. They started exploring on May 14, 1804. They reached the Pacific Ocean (about one year after the expedition began) in November 1805.
  • Dangers of the Oregon trail
  • When white settlers were moving west, they wanted to live in the place that the Native Americans were living in. So the government made them move past the Mississippi River. They marched them there. They said the Lakota could stay, but when they found gold where the Lakota lived, they forced them out. The Lakota raged, and the rage became the battle of Little Bighorn.
  • California Gold Rush
  • Many Americans moved to Texas for many reasons. When they got there, the Mexican president, Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, didn't like having too many Americans settled in Texas. so he said no more people could come. The Americans made a rebellion, and they fought a war against Mexico at the Alamo. Santa Anna was captured, and he made Texas a free country in trade for his freedom.
  • The Oregon Trail was the trail that the people took when moving west. A disease called Cholera killed many people. It was the deadliest danger there was along the Oregon Trail. People also had the chance of being frozen during bad weather and being trampled by a wagon.
  • In California, a carpenter named James Marshall found a tiny piece of gold in the American River. The owner of the sawmill he used, John Sutter, tried to keep the gold a secret. But news got out soon enough. Soon, everyone flocked to California to get rich. After a year, all the easy to find gold was taken. Not every miner even found a small nugget! At the end, the gold rush was a disaster for the most.
  • Gold!
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