Westward Expansion

  • Treaty of Fort Larmaie

    Treaty commissioners and representatives was signed to Cheyenne, Sioux, Arapaho, Navajo Crow, Shoshone, Assiniboine, Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara nations.
  • Homestead Act

    Homestead Act
    Freeman became one of to take advantage of the opportunites by the homestead act and was signed by Abraham Lincoln. The time signing 11 state left union.
  • Indian Peace Commission established

    Indian Peace Commission established
    Plain Indian tribes who were warring United States. Congress established the Indian Peace Commission.
  • Transcontinental Railroad completed

    Transcontinental Railroad completed
    The two railroad tracks were final connected and contient elaborate ceremony on Utah. They travel time between east and west.
  • Battle of little Bighorn

    Battle of little Bighorn
    Cluster found a nearby group with forty warriors. He ignored orders and went to attack but he did not realized how the warriors were three times his strenght.
  • End of cattle boom

    End of cattle boom
    Wholesale cattle prices Chicago fell to 3.16 there per hundredweight. Half what they had been in 1884.
  • Dawes Act

    Dawes Act
    The dawes act was approved by allotnment lands and several to indians on the various reservation. The treatment of native american were individual than memeber tribes.
  • Oklahoma land rush

    Oklahoma land rush
    Indian territory set off one of the most bizarre and chaotic episodes of town founding world history. Congress had failed to provide for any form of civil government.
  • Closing of the frontier

    Closing of the frontier
    In 1890 the superintendent of the U.S. Census announced that rapid western settlement meant that "there can hardly be said to be a frontier line.
  • Battle of wounded knee

    Battle of wounded knee
    Lakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, USA. led by Colonel James Forsyth and surrounded the encampment supported by four Hotchkiss guns.
  • Populist Party founded

    Populist Party founded
    They founded convention of the party. They set out the basic tenets of the populist movement.
  • William Jenning Bryan's "cross of gold" speech

    William Jenning Bryan's "cross of gold" speech
    William Jenning Bryan gave the most memoriable political addresses in American history. Cross of gold speech was a vivid image of the golden cross.