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Bureau of Indian Affairs ~ Boarding Schools
This was an attempt at forcing Indians to assimilate into white culture. -
Homestead Act 1862
The Homestead Act was signed by Abraham Lincoln promising settlers 160 acres in hopes that they would migrate Westward. -
Morrill Land-Grand Act of 1862
Made it possible for Westerners to establish colleges. -
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
Allowed for the railroad to be paid for with land instead of actual money. -
Sand Creek Masacre
Occurred due to conflict over who should control the Great Plains. -
Crazy Horse and Red Cloud, Fort Laramie Treaty in 1868
The Fort Laramie treaty was put in place to end the conflict between the White and Sioux Indian people. -
Medicine Lodge Treaty, Chief Satanta
Intended to bring peace by relocating Plains Indians to government reservations. -
Little Big Horn
Also known as Custer's Defeat, this battle was the worst U.S. Army defeat, and the Native Americans biggest victory. -
Chief Joseph
Was leader of the Wallowa band of the Nez Perce Tribe. He became famous in 1877 for leading his people on an epic flight across the Rocky Mountains. -
Exodusters
African Americans migrate from the South after the Civil War. -
Great Sioux War, 1876-1881
A series of battles between the Sioux Indians and white settlers -
Dawes Severalty Act
Authorized the President to subdivide Native American tribal landholdings into allotments -
Sitting Bull
Sitting Bull was a Hunkpapa Lakota leader who led his people during years of resistance towards the United States. He was killed in 1890 by Indian agency police on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation -
Massacre at Wounded Knee
This battle was the last battle between Native Americans and white settlers. It stopped Indians from trying to fight back.
