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Caddo Indians Moving Westward Indian
419 wordsIt is a beautiful feeling to start an exciting journey like I am. The time is April of 1836 and I am a 32 -year-old farmer. Like many of my fellow Americans I'm moving westward with my family and few wagons full of friends. My good friend Gunther tells me that the "Age of Jackson" is over and it's our destiny as a nation to expand. I must say this change is very exciting. Only I doubt that our group can go on very long without civilization's control. I predict that come winter, stealing from one...
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Lewis And Clark Sierra Nevada
1,248 words... lt and slow going due to the fact that the river level had fallen significantly, and navigating it by boat was incredibly difficult. On October 15 th, he found Clark, and so began the expedition, the Lewis and Clark Expedition. The expedition decided to spend that winter at Camp Wood, along the Missouri river in Present day Illinois. Throughout the next two years, the expedition made significant scientific discoveries, and mapped much of the Missouri river as well as much of the western half...
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000 Square Miles Hoover Dam
1,178 wordsThe Colorado River, one of the greatest natural wonders of the world, is a river of many different extremes, from the barren deserts of Mexico to the huge mountains of Colorado. This great river is born about 10, 000 feet in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado and flows southwest for 1, 470 miles to the Gulf of California (Sea of Cortez) in Mexico. It is the international boundary for 17 miles between Arizona and Mexico. Before the construction of a number of dams along its route, it flowed 80 miles...
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War Of 1812 Indian Tribes
1,373 words... they censure the Indians from following it? (Tecumseh). The council ended in an outbreak of anger from Tecumseh, stating that the Indians had been treated unfairly. It seemed a fight was imminent, however Harrison dismissed the council before any real trouble could arise. Tecumseh was now set on war and hoped for British support against the Americans. So he began another journey through the Northwest to recruit more supporters to his cause. He crossed into Canada to obtain support from the B...
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United States Of America Bureau Of Indian
2,860 wordsThe Mistreatment of Native Americans United States of America claims to be one of the most democratic countries in the world. Every high school student knows that democracy means government of people, a society where every groups interests are represented and where the supreme power belongs to citizens of this particular country. On the surface, Americas system seems to be working well everybody has a chance to get education, make a good living, and keep his /her historical and cultural identity...
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Lewis And Clark Meriwether Lewis
1,283 wordsStephen E. Ambrose, the best-selling author of D-Day and the distinguished biographer of Richard Nixon and Dwight D. Eisenhower, has now written the definitive account of the most momentous expedition in American history -- Lewis and Clark's pioneering journey across the North American continent from the Mississippi to the Pacific, carried out under the personal direction of President Thomas Jefferson. In this book, the authors thesis was to reveal to the reader the numerous adventures while exp...
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