Discovery Corps Expedition

The Discovery Corps Expedition was well worth the time and money the United States government has put into it. On this journey, we learned a lot about what was on the other side of our continent. Without this journey, we would have been living over on the eastern side of the country not knowing what was out to our west. Sure, $15,000,000 sounds like a lot for us to pay for something that we do not know what is, but I believe that that is a small price to pay for the information that we have learned about the rest of our continent. This purchase bought us about 800,000 square miles of new land. This works out to around 6 cents per square mile. If you ask me, that’s inexpensive for that much land. Firstly, we now have 827,000 Square miles of new territory to expand to and to obtain natural resources from. During our expedition, we traveled through all sorts of terrain to get to the end of the continent. We travelled through vast plains full of buffalo and other wildlife. We travelled through mountains three times taller than anything we have in our eastern side. We also discovered that there is another ocean on the other side of our continent with massive waves and beautiful waters. Without this expedition, who would have known that these things were out there in the vast wilderness. …show more content…
Imagine if a group of hunters were to wander a little farther out than they should have towards the rest and were to run into one of these tribes with weapons. It could, quite literally, cause a war! Since we were given the chance to let these natives know that we do not intend to harm them, we were able to be sure that they do not feel threatened by private parties. We were also able to learn from these natives about the new land since they have lived here for far longer than we have even known about this land. They know some tricks and tips to survive out in the