Because the United States acquired the land from France as part of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803.
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Columbus Day originated as a celebration of Italian-American heritage and was first held in San Francisco in 1869. The first state-wide celebration was held in Colorado in 1907. In 1937, Columbus Day become a holiday across the United States.
It changed during World War 2 II. December 7, 1941, was a traumatic event in World history. The Japanese attacked the Americans at Pearl Harbor. Then Hitler declared war on the U.S. In 1945, the U.S. claims a world's primacy as the world's superpower by dropping two nuclear bombs on Japan and the Nuclear Age began.
The government forced the Cherokee Indians to leave Georgia because of the need for arable land during the increasing growth of cotton agriculture in the Southeast, discovery of gold on the Cherokee land and the racial prejudice that many white southerners harbored toward American Indians. This Cherokee Removal happened in 1838 and 1839. The US troops expelled Cherokee Indians <span>from their ancestral homeland in the Southeast and removed them to the Indian Territory in what is now Oklahoma.</span>
