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The first treaty between Oto Tribe and and the US government
In 1867, the Otoe-Missouria chiefs signed a treaty agreeing to sell over half of their reservation for $1.25 an acre. The treaty was not immediately ratified by Congress, and when Green arrived in 1869, he advised the tribe to rescind the treaty since the land was worth much more than that. -
Preemption Act of 1841 passed
The Preemption Act of 1841 helped establish the doctrine of Manifest Destiny in North America. In 1891, the Preemption Act was repealed by Congress and replaced by the Land Revision Act. -
Kansas-Nebraka Act passed
The Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed the Missouri Compromise, created two new territories, and allowed for popular sovereignty. It also produced a violent uprising Bleeding Kansas as proslavery and antislavery activists flooded into the territories to sway the vote. -
Civil War (timespan)
The Civil War, also known as The War Between States and The War of Secession lasted four years and it was America's bloodiest war -
Homestead Act passed
To help develop the American West and spur economic growth, Congress passed the Homestead Act of 1862, which provided 160 acres of federal land to anyone who agreed to farm the land. The act distributed millions of acres of western land to individual settlers. -
The Charter for the Transcontinental Railroad passed
This act provided Federal subsidies in land and loans for the construction of a transcontinental railroad across the United States. -
Morrill Act passed
First proposed when Morrill was serving in the House of Representatives, the Morril Land Grant College Act of 1862 set aside federal lands to create colleges to benefit the agricultural and mechanical arts. -
Plum Creek Massacre
Was an aftermath of the Council House Fight, in which many of the Comanche Indian chiefs, women, and warriors were killed. In the summer of 1840 the Comanches swept down the Guadalupe valley, killing settlers, stealing horses, plundering, and burning settlements. -
Sand Creek Massacre
The U. S. Army carried out a surprise attack on a non-combatant encampment of Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians along the Big Sandy Creek in southeastern Colorado, killing about 160 men, women, and children, including elderly or infirm. -
Nebraska becomes a State
The state of Nebraska is the only state in the country that does not have a bicameral legislature. Instead, the Nebraska Legislature has only one house called the Unicameral - that serves the citizens of the state. Representatives from the Unicameral -
The first treaty of Fort Laramie
Between the U.S. Government and the Sioux Nation, the United States recognized the Black Hills as part of the Great Sioux Reservation, set aside for exclusive use by the Sioux people. -
The treaty in 1892 between the US government and the Lakota Tribe
These treaties were important because each made it legally possible for the United States to make land available to settlers. -
Construction of the transcontinental railroad (timespan)
On May 10, 1869, at Promontory Summit, Utah, a golden spike was hammered into the final tie. The transcontinental railroad was built in six years almost entirely by hand.