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Homestead Act
The U.S. government offered 160 acres of land to Americans that would live on it for 5 years and improve the land. -
Pacific Railroad Act
The Pacific Railroad Act designated the 32nd parallel as the transcontinental route, and it gave huge grants of lands to the companies creating the railroads in order to promote it's construction. -
The Transcontinental Railroad is completed
The first transcontinental railroad in the United States has officially been completed!!! -
Yellowstone National Park
President Ulysses S. Grant signed the Yellowstone National Park Protection Act into law. The world’s first national park was born. -
Black Hills Gold
The Black Hills Gold Rush took place in Dakota Territory in the United States and caused the U.S. government to push the Indian's land farther away. -
Barbed wire invented
Ranchers used barbed wire fences to keep their cattle from ranging free, and Railroad workers were required to mark the railroad with the new form of fencing . -
Battle of Little Bighorn
U.S citizens claimed that the Souix tribe had been sending random groups to violently raid their settlements, so the U.S. government sent militia to stop the attacks. -
Wild Bill Hickok's Death
Bill Hickok, a notorious gunfighter, was shot in the back of the head while playing poker in the Black Hills. -
The Exodusters
African Americans who migrated from states along the Mississippi River to Kansas in the late nineteenth century - It was the first general migration of black people following the Civil War. -
Dawes Severalty Act
The Dawes Act allowed for the U.S. government too view Native land as individually owned rather than belonging to the tribes in order to help the Indians by integrating them to western culture, but instead it ended up harming them. -
The Massacre At Wounded Knee
The massacre is the symbolic final step in the war for the West, and after Wounded Knee the Indians succumb to the wishes of the federal government, resigning themselves to reservation life. -
The U.S. Government announces that the Western lands have been explored
The Census Bureau announced the end of the frontier, a line or border separating two countries, line in the west. -
Presidential Election
Republican William McKinley defeat Democrat William Jennings Bryan (and became the 25th president of the U.S.) in a campaign that is often considered by historians to be one of the most dramatic and complex in American history.
