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In 1867, the Otoe-Missouria chiefs signed a treaty agreeing to sell over half of their reservation for $1.25 an acre. The treaty was not immediately ratified by Congress, and when Green arrived in 1869, he advised the tribe to rescind the treaty since the land was worth much more than that. -
The Preemption Act of 1841 helped establish the doctrine of Manifest Destiny in North America. In 1891, the Preemption Act was repealed by Congress and replaced by the Land Revision Act. -
The Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed the Missouri Compromise, created two new territories, and allowed for popular sovereignty. It also produced a violent uprising Bleeding Kansas as proslavery and antislavery activists flooded into the territories to sway the vote. -
The Civil War, also known as The War Between States and The War of Secession lasted four years and it was America's bloodiest war -
To help develop the American West and spur economic growth, Congress passed the Homestead Act of 1862, which provided 160 acres of federal land to anyone who agreed to farm the land. The act distributed millions of acres of western land to individual settlers. -
This act provided Federal subsidies in land and loans for the construction of a transcontinental railroad across the United States. -
First proposed when Morrill was serving in the House of Representatives, the Morril Land Grant College Act of 1862 set aside federal lands to create colleges to benefit the agricultural and mechanical arts. -
Was an aftermath of the Council House Fight, in which many of the Comanche Indian chiefs, women, and warriors were killed. In the summer of 1840 the Comanches swept down the Guadalupe valley, killing settlers, stealing horses, plundering, and burning settlements. -
The U. S. Army carried out a surprise attack on a non-combatant encampment of Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians along the Big Sandy Creek in southeastern Colorado, killing about 160 men, women, and children, including elderly or infirm. -
The state of Nebraska is the only state in the country that does not have a bicameral legislature. Instead, the Nebraska Legislature has only one house called the Unicameral - that serves the citizens of the state. Representatives from the Unicameral -
Between the U.S. Government and the Sioux Nation, the United States recognized the Black Hills as part of the Great Sioux Reservation, set aside for exclusive use by the Sioux people. -
These treaties were important because each made it legally possible for the United States to make land available to settlers. -
On May 10, 1869, at Promontory Summit, Utah, a golden spike was hammered into the final tie. The transcontinental railroad was built in six years almost entirely by hand.