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To push all indians to the lands west of the Mississippi.
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Trek made by the Cherokee indians
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The land Mexico gave the US after the Mexican war for 15 million dollars
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Authorized the creation of legally recognised indian reservations.
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The long streach of fighting by the Sioux in oder to protect their land from white settlement.
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A large Gold and Silver mine that was discovered in Nevada.
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Act designed to allot land for settlement to US citizens
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The Massacre that occured at Sand Creek killing 148 indians
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The trail used to herd cattle to Abilene from Texas for shipping to Chicago.
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Transcontinental Railroad finished in Promoontory Point, Utah.
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Joseph Glidden creates first mass produced version of Barbed wire.
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The Battle at little Big Horn that killed many US soldiers in a foolish attack on an Indian encampment
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The war fought by the Nez Perce in order to escape to Canada
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A boarding school created to transform the young indians into white society.
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Book written by Helen Hunt Jackson about Native American and US Government interaction.
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An act designed to break apart tribe lands and give land to individual families instead.
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A young Piute named Wovoka starts a religios movement that canges a culture.
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The massacre at wounded knee that marks the end of the long fighting between Sioux and US government