Nez Perce

buy the Louisiana territory to have the ports. Between May of 1804 and March of 1806 they succeeded for traveling 8,000 miles in 28 months to the Pacific Ocean. I first witnessed the plant that was first encountered was a Quamas, found near the Nez Perce tribe, it’s a food plant. The first animal I witnessed was a Prairie Dog, it was encountered in Osage county, Missouri, and they build huge underground villages. The landscape they encountered was the Rockies and the Cascade, they had many barriers

African Americans seemed to only come at the mercy of the Whites when they thought they were free. Freedman, something that should be the same for all natural born citizens and includes the right to owning their own property, live life as they like, able to vote, and to work earning fair wages. “Summer 1865, President Andrew Johnson, who had succeeded Lincoln, ordered nearly all land in federal hands returned to its former owner.” Foner P 483 “ The Civil War was an important time in the US history

Based on the evidence provided Morgan's central idea is supportive. There are reasons one should or shouldn't agree with Morgan. One reason to agree,the American land wouldn’t be the same today without Thomas Jefferson and the nine other Americans who were bold and passionated for land culminated in the Westward Expansion. A reason one’s shouldn't agree, is because the land was naturally owned by the Indians and taken over through a war. You could agree with Morgan in such as” the belief

Indians want is peace and the American are trying to find every little thing that they don’t like about the Indians, and pick a fight about it. It also states, “They have given us no rest,” because the Americans would take from them try to rule Nez Perce country. It was the Indians land and they could have done whatever they wanted to do to the Americans but they chose not to, because all they wanted was peace and the Americans to become

“Faith dare the soul to go farther than it can see” -William clark Imagine standing and staring at giant Mountains that were touching clouds, reaching for the sun.And thinking “I half to cross those?!” The Rockies was a very important part of the Lewis and Clark expedition.Lewis and Clark soon began to realize there was no northwest passage but still continued on their journey hoping for more discoveries.Before the Rockies came in sight the corps found the Shoshones on August 17.They met the leader

This version of the inauguration process of Yellowstone National Park outlines the impact the installment of Yellowstone had on the lives and lifestyle of its inhabiting and neighboring Native American tribes. John Colter, the first non-Indian to explore Yellowstone, was guided by the Crow, whom he set up a trade alliance with, to observe the many wonders the land contained. On his return to the east, many thought his stories, of geysers shooting heated water hundreds of feet in the air, were only

The Journals of Lewis and Clark Jeffrey Yamada Honors U.S History Mrs. Nylen 12/13/14 The expedition that Lewis and Clark had been on was a trip to the Pacific or the west. The President at the time was Thomas Jefferson and he wanted to explore and expand his country after receiving Louisiana from the French. So Jefferson asked his personal secretary, whose name was Meriwether Lewis to go on a journey along the Missouri River from St. Louis. Lewis. Meriwether Lewis was born on August

Lewis and Clark Have you ever wondered what it would be like to explore a land that nobody has ever explored before? This is exactly what Lewis and Clark did when the United States purchased a very large amount of land in The Louisiana Purchase. The Corps of Discovery was one of most important expeditions at that time. We will be going over three main points. The preparation of the journey, the journey itself, and the aftermath of the journey will be the main point of this paper.. Although the

Before the expeditions of todays well known Lewis and Clark, the entire western end of the United States was uncharted territory consisting of new peoples and surroundings waiting to be discovered. A member of this team included John Colter , who is an unknown person to most historians. Colter was an important piece of this group, and though he did not stay with Lewis and Clark during the entirety of two years, from May 1804 to September 1806, he was an essential component of their travels. While

Chief Joseph Chief joseph was one of the most courageous men alive. He was March 3, 1840, Wallowa County, Oregon, OR. When the United States attempted to force the Nez Perce to move to a reservation in 1877, he reluctantly agreed. Following the killing of a group of white settlers, tensions erupted again, and Chief Joseph tried to lead his people to Canada, in what is considered one of the great retreats in military history”(Biography.com). His name tribal name was Hin-mah-too-yah-lat-kekt which