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Americans believed in Manifest Destiny meaning they believed that all of America was theirs. Who ever lived on the lands already would have to move or face the Unions wrath; much like the American Indians of the Great Plains.
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The Pony Express consisted of relays of men riding horses carrying saddlebags of mail across a 2000-mile trail in just 10 days.
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First transcontinental telegraph completed shutting down The Pony Express.
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Homestead Act encouraged Western migration by providing settlers 160 acres of public land.
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On May 10, 1869, a golden spike was driven at Promontory, Utah, signaling the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in the United States.
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Yellowstone National Park is dedicated as the countries first national park by President Ulysses S. Grant.
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Gold discovered in Black Hills by Custard and the 7th Cavalry.
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Barbed wire invented to keep cattle in.
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An American Indian army composed of Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapahoe defeat General Custer and the 7th Calvary.
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Wild Bill is shot and killed while playing poker in Deadwood, South Dakota.
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Passed in 1887, the Dawes Act called for the breakup of the reservations and the treatment of Indians as individuals rather than tribes.
