President Jefferson commissioned the expedition shortly after the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 to explore and to map the newly acquired territory, to find a practical route across the western half of the continent, and to establish American presence in this territory before Britain and other European powers
Because there was an HIV/AIDS outbreak, and due to being a Republican administration, they had absolutely no idea how viruses or the human body worked. The CDC did.
The cultural assimilation of Native Americans was an assimilation effort by the United States to transform Native American culture to European–American culture between the years of 1790 and 1920. ... It established Native American boarding schools which children were required to attend.
Agricultural prices and earnings fell. Shipping-related industries were devastated. Causing a financial depression from 1807-1814.