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The West Project

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    The West Project

  • Homestead Act

    Anyone who had never taken up arms against the U.S. government (including freed slaves and women), was 21 years or older, or the head of a family, could file an application to claim a federal land grant.

  • Gold Discovered in Bannack, Montana

    Migration westward increased. The American population gradually moved westward.

  • Sand Creek Massacre

    Triggers the wider American war with the Plains Indians. Mass killing of innocent natives by Colorado militia.

  • Treaty of Medicine Lodge

    Indian Peace Commission signed three treaties at Medicine Lodge Creek near Medicine Lodge, Kansas.

  • Wyoming Territory formed

  • Nez Perce Treaty

  • Indian Appropriation Act

  • Gold discovered in the Black Hills

    (most sacred lands of the Lakota)

  • Red River Indian War

  • Gold Rush prompts the 2nd Sioux War

  • Nez Perce War

  • Helen Hunt Jackson

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

  • Dawes Severalty Act passed

  • N.Dakota, S.Dakota, Montana, and Washington become states.

  • Oklahoma territory opened to white settlers.

    50,000 settlers migrated to OK. They claimed all 1.92 million acres by sunset.

  • Wyoming and Idaho become states.

  • Wounded Knee massacre

  • Gold discovered in Yukon's Klondike

  • Utah becomes a state