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The first treaty between the Otoe Tribe and the US government
made peace with each other, with a very unfair deal -
Preemption Act of 1841 passed
This law made it so you had to be a U.S citizen and pay $1.25 per acre up to 160 acres. -
The first Treaty of Fort Laramie
The US gave the arapahoes and Lakotas sorority over the platte. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act passed
Made Kansas and Nebraska a territory -
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Civil War
it was for the battle of slavery -
Homestead Act passed
provided 160 acres of federal land to anyone who agreed to farm the land. -
The Charter for the Transcontinental Railroad
a train track that went across the US. They also got 10 miles of land on either side of the track. -
Morrill Act passed
set aside federal lands to create colleges to “benefit the agricultural and mechanical arts.” -
Period: to
Construction of the transcontinental railroad
2 railroads competed to build the most amount of track, they could claim 10 miles on either side of the track for free. -
Plum Creek Massacre
Cheyennes and Arapahoes massacred U.S. citizens -
Sand Creek Massacre
John Chivington massacred cheyennes and arapahoes even though they surrendered. -
Nebraska becomes a State
Nebraska becomes the 37th state in the union. -
The treaty in 1892 between the US government and the Lakota Tribe
The last treaty in Nebraska, that gave them the last amount of land.