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US won California from Mexico

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1834

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Completion of the transcontinental railroad

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1869

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Homestead Act

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1862

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Civil War

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1862-1865

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Timber Culture Act

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1873

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California gold rush

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1849

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Cattle drives

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1870s

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Ranching on the open range

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1880s

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Fort Laramie Treaty 1

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1851

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Dawes Act

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1889

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Permanent Indian frontier

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1834

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Destruction of the buffalo herds

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1870s

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Good discovered in Rocky Mountains

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1862

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Sand Creek Massacre

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1864

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Ghost Dance

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1889

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Wounded Knee Massacre

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1889

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Custer finds good in Black Hills

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1873

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Economics depression and crops failing in eastern states

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1830s and 1840s

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Belief in manifest destiny

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1860s-1880s

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Fort Laramie Treaty 2

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1868

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Battle of the Little Bighorn

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1876

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Little Crows War

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1862

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Reservation educating policy

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1880s-1890s

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Government moving Indians to reservations on Great Plains

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1825

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Bureau of Indian affairs set up

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1832

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Permanent Indian frontier. The ‘piff line’

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1834

27
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Completion of removal of eastern Indians onto reservations

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1838

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Mormons began their move to Salt Lake City

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1846

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Mormons in Kirtland

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1831-1837

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Mormons in Missouri

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1837-1838

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Mormons in Nauvoo

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1839-1846

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American-Mexican War: California and New Mexico become part of US

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1846

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Gold discovered in California

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1848

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Settlers began moving into Kansas and Nebraska

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1854

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Cheyenne and Arapaho began serious attacks on minors and travellers.

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1861

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Cheyenne wars began

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1863

37
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Red Clouds War began

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1865

38
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Last free Sioux under Crazy Horse surrendered

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1877

39
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All Indian nations on reservations

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1885

40
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