1851 |
- First Treaty of Fort Laramie.
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1862 |
- Homestead Act.
- Great Sioux Uprising (Santee Uprising).
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1864 |
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1867 |
- Treaty of Medicine Lodge.
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1868 |
- Washita massacre.
- Second Treaty of Fort Laramie.
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1869 |
- First transcontinental railroad completed.
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1870s |
- Hunters begin to decimate bison herds.
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1873 |
- “Big Bonanza” discovered on Comstock Lode.
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1874 |
- Discovery of gold in Black Hills.
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1876 |
- Battle of the Little Big Horn.
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1877 |
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1879 |
- Carlisle Indian School opens.
- Exodusters move to Kansas.
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1881 |
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1882 |
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1886 |
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1886–1887 |
- Severe blizzards decimate cattle.
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1887 |
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1889 |
- Rise of Ghost Dance.
- Two million acres in Oklahoma opened for settlement.
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1890 |
- Sitting Bull killed.
- Massacre at Wounded Knee, South Dakota.
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1893 |
- Last land rush in Oklahoma Territory.
- Frederick Jackson Turner presents “frontier thesis.”
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