"Last Frontier"

By malakabulabda

  • Civil War

    Civil War
    when the Union was thrown into a civil war, westward expansion slowed down between 1861 and 1865.

  • Pony Express

    Pony Express
    mail delivery system that reached from the Midwest all the way to California.

  • Homestead Act

    Homestead Act
    gave settlers 160 acres of land after completing a series of steps. act was a government initiative to expand the Frontier by populating the west.

  • Sandcreek Massacre

    Sandcreek Massacre
    U.S army murder 150 Cheyenne Indians. Because of westward expansion, some pioneers felt the Native Americans were in the way of their settling the state.