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Election of 1860
Abraham Lincoln elected: Allows Transcontinental Railroad to be created -
Homestead Act (B)
US Government gives away land in west for free to promote expansion. As a result many give up their factory jobs to attempt to seek out wealth. -
Pacific Railway Acts (A)
Multiple acts that promoted the construction of a railroad from the Atlantic to the Pacific -
Morrill Land Grant Act (B)
US Government grants public land, allowing for the creation of colleges. Gave the people moving to the west opportunities of education -
Treaty of Fort Laramie (D)
Created the Great Sioux Reservation, the treaty was later violated by the US during the Great Sioux War -
Indian Appropriation Act of 1871 (E)
Officially ended recognization of Native Americans as independent states, attempting to force them into American society, which they resisted. -
General Mining Act (A)
Those who find minerals on public land are allowed to keep it. This entices people to search for resources. -
Battle of Little Big Horn (C)
Battle fought between US Government and Lakota Natives over an area known as the Black Hills -
Carlisle School (E)
A school designed to assimilate Native Americans, many refused to attend as they knew it was designed to force American beliefs on them. -
Dawes Severalty Act (D)
Reduced amount of land controlled by Native Americans; Oklahoma taken from Natives. -
Battle of Wounded Knee (C)
US Soldiers attempt to take arms from Lakota group, leads to a large massacre of the members of the village
