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The first treaty between the Oto Tribe and the US government
On September 21, 1833, in the Otoe Village on the River Platte, Henry L. Ellsworth, Commissioner acting on behalf of the United States, and the federated bands of Otoes and Missourians residing on the same Platte signed articles of agreement and convention. -
Preemption Act of 1841 passed
A acted passed to permit people who lived on federal ground to purchase up to 160 acres of land. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act passed
The Kansas-Nebraska Act provided for popular sovereignty, abolished the Missouri Compromise, and established two additional territories. -
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Civil War
A civil war in the United States, the American Civil War. It was fought between the Union and the Confederacy, which was made up of seceding states. -
The Charter for the Transcontinental Railroad passed
Obtained financing and land grants from the federal government to help build a transcontinental railroad across the country. -
Morrill Act passed
The Morrill Land Grant College Act of 1862, which Morrill first advocated while he was a representative, set aside federal property to establish institutions to "promote the agricultural and mechanical arts." -
Homestead Act passed
This act gave 160 acres of land to either the head of the household, over 21, Us citizen. -
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Construction of the transcontinental railroad
The Transcontinental Railroad (formerly known as the "Pacific Railroad") established the first continuous railroad line across the United States by linking the already-existing eastern U.S. rail networks to the west coast. -
Sand Creek Massacre
In the American Indian Wars, on November 29, 1864, a 675-man detachment of the Third Colorado Cavalry executed Cheyenne and Arapaho people at the Sand Creek Massacre. -
Plum Creek Massacre
The Council House Fight, which resulted in the deaths of numerous Comanche Indian chiefs, women, and warriors, was followed by the battle of Plum Creek. The Comanches marched across the Guadalupe valley in the summer of 1840, destroying towns and killing residents while robbing them of their horses and other valuables. -
Nebraska becomes a State
It became a state. -
The first Treaty of Fort Laramie
On April 29, 1868, the United States and France agreed to a pact. Government and the Sioux Nation recognized the Black Hills as a portion of the Great Sioux Reservation, which was set aside for the Sioux people's sole use. -
The treaty in 1892 between the US government and the Lakota Tribe
The United States acknowledged the Black Hills as a portion of the Great Sioux Reservation, set aside for the sole use of the Sioux people, in this treaty, which was signed on April 29, 1868, between the U.S. Government and the Sioux Nation.