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Westward Expansion
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Treaty of Fort Laramie
Ratified in 1853
A.k.a. "Treaty of Long Meadows" (Lakota)
A.k.a. "Great Horse Creek Treaty" (Cheyenne) -
Homestead Act
Provided for the transfer of 160 acers of unoccupied public land to each homesteader on payment of a nominal fee after five years of residence
Passes by the US Congress -
Indian Peace Commission established
Negotiate peace with Plains Indian tribes who were warring with the United States
Met in St. Louis, Missouri -
Transcontinental Railroad completed
Important goal for President Lincoln
Originally knows as the "Pacific Railroad" -
Battle of Little Bighorn
Also known as Custer's Last Stand
Major victory for the Indians -
End of Cattle Boom
The end of the cattle boom it thought to be caused by many cattle in Texas causing fever, or there were too many cattle and the open-range declined due to barbed wire
There was a big demand of beef -
Dawes Act
An act to provide for the allotment of lands in severally to Indians on the various reservations
Henry Dawes enacted this act -
Oklahoma Land Rush
Oklahoma was "unassigned land" so people eager to get western land quickly or "rushed" to Oklahoma for land
Oklahoma was open to settlers -
Closing of the frontier
Over a forty year timespan
In 1890 the superintendent of the U.S. Census announced that rapid western settlement meant that "there can hardly be said to be a frontier line." -
Battle of Wounded Knee
Wounded Knee was a slaughter of Sioux Indians who had agreed to go onto Reservation land
On Dec. 29, 1890, more than 200 Sioux men, women, and children were massacred by U.S. troops -
Populist Party founded
A short-lived political party in the United States established in 1892 during the Populist movement (United States, 19th Century) It was dissolved in 1908 -
William Jenning Bryan's "Cross of Glod" speech
Delivered by former Nebraska Congressman William Jennings Bryan at the 1896 Democratic National Convention in Chicago
The most famous speech in American political history
