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Westward Expansion
Westward Expansion
Westward Expansion
May 14th 1804 Lewis and Clark expedition began and their journey near
Abraham Lincoln one of the many kids who moved west with their
parents ,his mother died when he was 9 so he was forced to grow up fast.
later he became a president
Louisiana purchase
The Louisiana Purchase (1803) was a land
deal between the United States and France, in
which the U.S. acquired approximately
827,000 square miles of land west of the
Mississippi River for $15 million.
Lewis and another hunter kill a large grizzly bear, which had never before
been described for science.
Clark names the Judith River in honor of a girl back in Virginia he
hopes to marry.
Lewis and Clark are treated as national heroes they return to
washington dc. They received double the pay and 320 acres of land as a
reward the captains get 1600 acres lewis is named governor of the
louisiana territory , Clark is made indian agent for the West and brigadier
general of the territory militia
The Native Americans were thrown to a new place where the land was
dried and the very few water they had was filled with infection that were
deadly.
The americans did something bad which was not far to the natives
I see that manifest destiny as an excuse for the americans to act selfish .
they believed that it was an excuse americans used to allow them push their
culture and beliefs on everyone in north america . Historians believed that
expansion was for the good of the country and was more the right of the
people . Americans wanted more land ,and this was a good excuse for
taking it
Manifest destiny was a good thing for the americans and a horrible
thing for the native americans . i think that the americans are very selfish
for taking there land there was plenty of land they could bye but instead
they thrown away the native americans and gave them a horrible place for
them to live in and you couldn't really
Westward expansion was definitely a good thing for the united state
because we know have new land which made the united state bigger. United
state would get stronger and powerful with new people and we should thank
Thomas Jefferson,York,Sacagawea, James k. Polk , many other people
from 1803-1869 but we especially thank Lewis and Clark
Was the westward expansion fair not at all the American were taking
control and the Native American lost lots land in which they called home
and were forced to move to someplace they never even seen before the
Native Americans had every right to want to start war or have hate for the
Americans .