The West - "Last Frontier"

By toddbeaudreau
  • Election of 1860

    Election of 1860

    Abraham Lincoln elected: Allows Transcontinental Railroad to be created
  • Homestead Act (B)

    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)

    Pacific Railway Acts (A)

    Multiple acts that promoted the construction of a railroad from the Atlantic to the Pacific
  • Morrill Land Grant Act (B)

    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)

    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)

    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)

    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 of Little Big Horn (C)

    Battle fought between US Government and Lakota Natives over an area known as the Black Hills
  • Carlisle School (E)

    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)

    Dawes Severalty Act (D)

    Reduced amount of land controlled by Native Americans; Oklahoma taken from Natives.
  • Battle of Wounded Knee (C)

    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