The Last West and the New South

By cbracken22

  • Discovery of Gold near Pike's peak

    100,000 miners to colorado
  • Period: to

    Last West, New South

  • Homestead Act of 1862

    enocuraged farming on the great plains by offering 160 acres of land to families willing to settle on it for 5 years

  • Fetterman's Massacre

  • The battle of little big horn

  • Booker T washington establishes Tuskegee industrial and agricultural school

  • Chinese exclusion act

    prohibited further immigration to United states by chinese laborers

  • Civil rights cases

    congress could not legislate against the racial discrimination practiced by private citizens

  • Interstate commerce act

  • Dawes Severalty Act

  • National organization of farmers (National alliance)

  • Turner's frontier thesis

  • National Negro Business league

    established by washington

  • Plessy v Ferguson