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Gave land to states for them to build state universities that would research agricultural issues Morrill Land Act
Killing of 450 Cheyenne Indians by Colorado Volunteers although the village had raised the white flag Sand Creek or Chivington Massacre
Gave 160 acres of land to anyone who farmed it for five years Homestead Act
Mandated that the US abandon its forts along the Bozeman trails and guaranteed the Lakota Sioux their possession of land including the Black Hills "as long as the grass shall grow" Fort Laramie Treaty
Chiefs Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse defeated vastly Custer's outnumbered forces Battle of Little Big Horn
Hundreds of Indians killed after they had surrendered their weapons; regarded as the "Last Stand of the Indians" Battle of Wounded Knee
Fighting between Indians led by Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse after gold was discovered in the Black Hills on Indian reservations Sioux War of 1876
Belief that the world would soon end and that special shirts would stop bullets Ghost Dance Movement
Fighting when Red Cloud fought the US army to a stalemate and forced the government to abandon its forts along the Bozeman Trail in Wyoming and Montana Sioux War of 1865-7
Site of large silver find in Nevada Comstock Lode
Detailed the mistreatment of Indians by the US government A Century of Dishonor
Split up tribal lands into individual allotments in an attempt to assimilate Indians to white ways of farming Dawes Severalty Act
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