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A french man visited the Mississippi river and found nothing but land people shouldn't live on.
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Thomas Jefferson aquired 828,000 more miles of land to Louisiana.
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The city engineers agreed to force flow down a single channel.
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The wetlands continued to dissapear from the water only running down one channel.
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Hurricane Betsy came and destroyed millions.
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20 inches of rainfall in a single day causing deaths and $1 billion worth of damage.