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The Homestead Act Of 1862
The homestead act was passed by Congress in 1862. The homestead act gave 160 acres to a settler who paid the price and lived there for five years. It was ment to get more people out west. It got a thousand settlers and immigrantsto move west. -
Fetterman Massacre
Along the Bozeman Trail, the bloodiest attack happened in December 21, 1866. A Sioux military leader, Crazy Horse, lured 80 US. troops to a ambush. The hundreds of Indians who were waiting to abush the troops wiped them out. This was one of the attacks that the Sioux, Cheyeen, and Aarapaho warriors started. This was called the Fetterman Massacre. -
Treaty of Fort Laramie
Aa lot of attacks were going on because of land dispuits. They had to end the war between the indians. In 1868, there was a treaty that was to bring peace betweemn the Settlers and the Sioux indians who agreed to settle on the Black Hills Reservation. This Gave the Sioux exclusive use of the Black Hills Territory. -
Discovery of 1874
iN 1874, General George A. Custer led an expedition to the Black Hills in the Dakotas. The reason why they had this expedition is that there was a rumer that there was gold in the Black Hills territory. They found gold and many miners settled in the Black Hills. But this was the land the U.S. promised to leave alone. -
Battle of Little Bighorn
The government tried to buy the Black Hills territory, but Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse led the Sioux and Cheyeen warriors. So on June 25th, Colonel George Custer led the Seventh Calvary and spied on the Indians. Then Custer wanted the glory of leading a victory, so he attacked the thousands of Indians and lost badly. -
Ghost Dance
Since the Dawes Act, it chanded the way the Indians lived. It also weakened the Indians cultural customes. So the Sioux turned into Wovoka. Wovoka said that the Sioux become great again if the did this ritual known as the Ghost Dance. The dance was a way to express their culture that was being demolished. -
Wounded Knee
Once the Ghost Dance was baned, officers went into the camps to arrest Sitting Bull and shot him. Many fled to a place called Wounded Knee. Then the army went to get weapons and someone shot a pistol. after that 200 indians died and 25 troops died. This was the end the war between the Indians and whites.
