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The treaty assigned each Native American tribe a set area, where they would stay.
Most Lakota and Dakota did not know of the Treaty of Fort Laramie and they continued to steal from other tribes. -
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The Homestead Act stated any adult citizen of the United States that had not fought for the Confederates could claim 160 acres of government land at a small cost.
This main idea of this act had first been mentioned in the Articles of Confederation. -
The Indian Peace Commission tried to move the Indians from their land to reservations.
The government wanted them to stay either on a reservation in Oklahoma or in the Black Hills of the Dakotas. -
The Central Pacific and the Union Pacific were competing to see who could lay down the most track.
Before the railroad's completion, it cost $1000 to travel from New York to San Francisco (now as little as $65 on the new Transcontinental Railroad.) -
Colonel George Custer and his own group of about 210 soldiers were annihilated by the Indians.
4,000 Native Americans attacked the small group. -
The Cattle Boom had happened in the South and the West Coast of America
The Cattle Boom ended as a result of many things, including over hunting, over grazing, and introductions to chicken and sheep meat. -
The Dawes Act granted the head of each Indian family 160 acres. This act reduced the amount of Native American land from 138 million acres to 78 million acres.
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The Oklahoma Land Rush occurred when 2 million acres of land that was owned by Indians was made available.
Some important towns, such as Norman and Oklahoma City, came up almost overnight. -
In twenty five years, the western frontier was settled.
Threee million people made farms on the Great Plains in this time. -
Chief Big Foot and about 350 Indians were surrounded by US troops.
300 of the Sioux and twenty five soldiers died. -
The Populist Party was also called the Peoples Party of America.
The patry's first national nominating convention met in Omaha, Nebraska. -
The speech talked about whether to endorse the free coinage of silver at a ratio of silver to gold of 16 to 1.
William Jennings Bryan was trying to give a great speech so he would be nominated as the Democratic candidate for president.
