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Indian Removal Act
Act where the law removed the indians. -
Indian Appropiations Act
The name where several acts passed by the united states congress. -
Homestead Act
Anyone who had never taken up arms against the U.S. government could file an application to claim a federal land grant. There was also a residency requirement. -
Sand creek massacre
Where a 700 man force of Colorado Territory militia attacked and destroyed a peaceful village of Cheyenne and Arapaho inhabited in southeastern Colorado Territory -
Fetterman massacre
Battle between cowboys and indians. It was a batlle during red clouds war. -
Cheyenne Uprising
Black Kettle led his his men out while they were starving and in criticle condition. -
Fort lamarie
This treaty was to bring peace between the whites and the Sioux who agreed to settle within the Black Hills reservation in the Dakota Territory. -
Desert Land Act
Act to encourage and promote the economic the development of the arid and semiarid public lands of the Western states. -
Nez Perce War
Chief Joseph a warrior who helped capture mountain bear paw mountain. -
Wounded Knee Massacre
On the mornin of December 29, the troops went into the camp to disarm the Lakota. One version of events claims that during the process of disarming the Lakota -
Forest Reserve Act
signed into law by President Benjamin Harrison after two decades of debate about public land policy -
Turners Thesis
An arguement between Frederick jackson that the American deomcoracy was formed by the american frontier.