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Indian removal act
The US Government decreed that the Indian tribes could freely inhabit the Great Plains. A Permanent Indian Frontier was established on the eastern edge of the Great Plains. -
Bureau of indian affairs
This act was passed to provide certain services to the indians, the outcome of this agency was pretty postive it helped the indians out atleast a tad bit. -
Turner Thesis
This was a theory made by Frederick Jackson Turner, he basicly stated his thoughts on certain parts of the u.s, and free land and safety, this caused a lot of arguments and such. -
Indian appropriations acts
This was multiple acts passed by congress. 1851 act passed was the "Appropriations Bill for Indian Affiar, this funded western tribes onto reservations. 1871 act was Indian Appropriation a Act passed on March 3rd this was passed to ensure all Indians were treated as individuals. 1885 act allowed indians to sell unoccupied land that they claimed to be their own. These acts were passed to help the indians out in some way, the outcome of them were pretty positive. -
Homestead Act
The Homestead Act, enacted during the Civil War in 1862, provided that any adult citizen, or intended citizen, who had never borne arms against the U.S. government could claim 160 acres of surveyed government land. This ended in native americans being forced off of their land. -
Little crows war
A agreement between the government and Dakota ended in a war because of lies, so the result of the government lying many died and war was the outcome. -
Cheyenne uprising
The Cheyenne had agreed to the wants of the Fort Wise Treaty to move onto a reservation. The land and supplies was poor, many began to die, so they began attacking wagons for food. -
Sand Creek Massacre
The Sand Creek Massacre (also known as the Chivington Massacre, the Battle of Sand Creek or the Massacre of Cheyenne Indians) was an atrocity in the Indian Wars that occurred on November 29, 1864, when a 700-man force of Colorado Territory militia attacked and destroyed a peaceful village of Cheyenne and Arapaho encamped in southeastern Colorado Territory,[3] killing and mutilating an estimated 70–163 Indians, about two-thirds of whom were women and children. -
Sand creek massacre
Attack on the Cheyenne and Arapaho indian villiages, over territory. The outcome of this event was many deaths. -
Fetterman massacre
The Fetterman Fight was a battle during Red Cloud's War on December 21, 1866, between the Lakota, Cheyenne, and Arapaho Indians and soldiers of the United States army. All 81 men under the command of Captain William J. Fetterman were killed by the Indians. It was, at the time, the worst military disaster ever suffered by the U.S. on the Great Plains. The battle led to an Indian victory and the withdrawal of the United States from the war. -
Fort laramie treaty
An agreement between Indian tribes and the united states it garunteed the the Lakota ownership of the Black Hills also further land and some hunting rights. -
Dawes Act
an act to provide for the allotment of lands in severalty to Indians on the various reservations, and to extend the protection of the laws of the United States and the Territories over the Indians, and for other purposes. -
Indian laramie treaty
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Deset Land Act
The Desert Land Act was passed by the United States Congress on March 3, 1877, to encourage and promote the economic development of the arid and semiarid public lands of the Western states. Through the Act, individuals may apply for a desert-land entry to reclaim, irrigate, and cultivate arid and semiarid public lands. This act amended the Homestead Act (1862). -
Wounded knee massacre
On the morning of December 29, 1890, the Sioux chief Big Foot and some 350 of his followers camped on the banks of Wounded Knee creek. Surrounding their camp was a force of U.S. troops charged with the responsibility of arresting Big Foot and disarming his warriors. The scene was tense. Trouble had been brewing for months.
