Western Settlement Industrilization

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

    Chinese Exclusion Act

    Law signed by Chester A. Arthur that allowed the U.S to suspend chinese immigration.
  • Geronimo Surrenders

    Geronimo Surrenders

    Geronimo leads Apache people off their reservation and surrenders after years of war.
  • Dawes Act

    Dawes Act

    Authorized the President of the United States to survey Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians
  • Settlement

    Settlement

    Indian Territory (Oklahoma) is opened to white homesteaders; 50,000 settlers race across the land and claim all 1.92 million acres by sunset
  • Ghost Dance

    Ghost Dance

    The birth of the Ghost Dance religion, Which was part of the Native American belief systems