It's May 14, 1804. It is an amazing thing watching Lewis and Clark pack up for their journey into the Louisiana Territory. St. Louis seems so busy lately, people look like a big blur outside my bedroom window. It's rainy and I wish for the best for the explorers. Papa told me today that Jefferson bought Louisiana for fifteen million dollars from Napoleon Bonaparte. Four cents for an acre is a good price! Fifteen million dollars for a huge track of land unexplored! I can only imagine what great sights Lewis and Clark are going to see!
How are we going to stay one nation? If we are spreading so far out, how are we going to stay one? People in the North are going to have different opinions than the people who are going to move into the West. We are going to need a strong Federal government to unify all of United States. When people move into these lands how are they going to become states? I guess the United States are going to have a system when territories become states. Maybe the federal government will make up a plan that will decide whether a region can be a state by the number of people. It's just something that is so new to our country.
How are we going to stay one nation? If we are spreading so far out, how are we going to stay one? People in the North are going to have different opinions than the people who are going to move into the West. We are going to need a strong Federal government to unify all of United States. When people move into these lands how are they going to become states? I guess the United States are going to have a system when territories become states. Maybe the federal government will make up a plan that will decide whether a region can be a state by the number of people. It's just something that is so new to our country.
2 comments:
Your second paragraph is good, but why all the questions? And also, you didn't have to make it seem like you were there in the second paragraph like you did in the first one. Over all good job!
The way you draw a reader into believing you are a child in the time of Lewis and Clark is a very effective method of presenting information to the audience. Also by staying in character throughout your post you are better able to represent the uncertainty that citizens likely had through all the challenges in the 1800s.
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