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The Coronados Expedition traveled from Mexico north through the future U.S. states of Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas. -
The leader of the Spainiards - Villasur got killed in the battle they started. They wanted Nebraska so they fought for it.
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In 1673, Father Jacques Marquette, a Jesuit missionary, and Louis Joliet, a fur trader, undertook an expedition to explore the unsettled territory in North America from the Great Lakes region to the Gulf of Mexico for the colonial power of France. -
Veniard was a French explorer who documented his travels on the Missouri and Platte rivers in North America and made the first European maps of these areas in the early 18th century. -
Cavalier lost the 7 year war. Napolian took Nebraska from him.
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Villasur’s Expedition was a Spanish military expedition intended to check New France's growing influence on the North American Great Plains, led by Lieutenant-General Pedro de Villasur. They also wanted to find out who was in control of the fur trades and stop them. -
They won the 7 year was and took it from the french. Napolean took it.
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Napolean sold it to the US- Louisiana Purchase.
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They bought it in the Louisiana Purchase and they still own it today.
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Lewis and Clark’s Expedition was the United States expedition to cross the newly acquired western portion of the country after the Louisiana Purchase. The people leading this expidition were Captain Meriwether Lewis and his close friend Second Lieutenant William Clark. -
The Pike Expedition was a military party sent out by President Thomas Jefferson and authorized by the United States government to explore the south and west of the recent Louisiana Purchase.