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1858-Discovery of Gold in Colorado
It was the primary reason many people left searching for easy wealth. It also caused a lot of small towns to develop and then be abandoned. -
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1864-Sand Creek Massacre
On November 29, 1864, seven hundred members of the Colorado Territory militia embarked on an attack of Cheyenne and Arapaho Indian villages. The militia was led by U.S. Army Col. John Chivington, a Methodist preacher, as well as a freemason. -
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1868-Treaty of Fort Laramie
The principle reasons for the failure of the Treaty of Versailles to establish a long-term peace include the following the Allies disagreed on how best to treat Germany -
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1874-Invasion, by gold miners, of the Sioux’s Sacred Black Hills
Sitting Bull was the Native American chief under whom the Sioux tribes united in their struggle for survival on the North American Great Plains. Following the discovery of gold in the Black Hills of South Dakota in 1874, the Sioux came into increased conflict with U.S. authorities. -
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1876-Custer’s Last Stand
Lieutenant Colonel Custer and his U.S. Army troops are defeated in battle with Native American Lakota Sioux and Northern Cheyenne on the Little Bighorn Battlefield, June 25, 1876 at Little Bighorn River, Montana. -
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1887-The Dawes Act
The Dawes Act of 1887 adopted by Congress in 1887, authorized the President of the United States to survey American Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians. -
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1890-The Ghost Dance Movement and the Battle of Wounded Kne
The Ghost Dance originated among the Paiute Indians around 1870. However, the tide of the movement came in 1889 with a Paiute shaman Wovoka. Wovoka had a vision during a sun eclipse in 1889. In this vision he saw the second coming of Christ and received warning about the evils of white man.