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Ratified in 1853
A.k.a. "Treaty of Long Meadows" (Lakota)
A.k.a. "Great Horse Creek Treaty" (Cheyenne) -
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 -
Negotiate peace with Plains Indian tribes who were warring with the United States
Met in St. Louis, Missouri -
Important goal for President Lincoln
Originally knows as the "Pacific Railroad" -
Also known as Custer's Last Stand
Major victory for the Indians -
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 -
An act to provide for the allotment of lands in severally to Indians on the various reservations
Henry Dawes enacted this act -
Oklahoma was "unassigned land" so people eager to get western land quickly or "rushed" to Oklahoma for land
Oklahoma was open to settlers -
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." -
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 -
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
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Delivered by former Nebraska Congressman William Jennings Bryan at the 1896 Democratic National Convention in Chicago
The most famous speech in American political history
