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Treaty of guadalupe hildago
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California gold rush
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Gasden Purchase
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Cortina's war in south texas
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Homestead act makes free land available, morrill act authorizes "land grant" colleges
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Great Sioux War
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Texas cattle drives begin, medicine lodge treaty established reservation, and alaska purchased
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Board of indian commissioners created, BUffallo bill the king os border men sets off the "Wild West" publishing craze
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Grasshopper attacks on the great plains
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yellowstone national park created
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TImber Culture act and red river war
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Sioux battles the black hills of dakotas
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Custers last stand
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Defeat of the nez perce
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Helen HUnt Jackson, a century of dishonor
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Edmunds act outlaws polygamy
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Droughts and severe winters cause the collapse of the cattle boom
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Dawes severalty act
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Ghost dance movement, massacre of lakota sioux at wounded knee, census bureau announces the end of the frontier line
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Forest management act gives the federal government authority over forest reserves