chapter five apush dates

Sandy Creek Massacre - militia in Colorado killed 200+ Indians

1864

Battle of Little Bighorn - Indians overpowered and beat whites after Custer led scientific expedition on reservation after discovery of gold

1876

Nez Perce Indians led to reservation in Kansas after promised ancestral lands in Idaho

1877

Grant’s Peace Policy calling for assimilation and no military expeditions on reservations

1869

1871

Indian tribes no longer recognized as sovereign nations, can’t make treaties

Dawes Severalty Act - distributed given land in reservations to family heads in attempt to solve generalities made in giving reservations to “tribes”

1887

Carlisle Indian School in PA → boarding schools to assimilate children

1879

Battle of Wounded Knee - 200+ defenseless Indians killed by whites seeking to stop Ghost Dance religious movement

1890

Homestead Act - Land given to non-Confederates for cheap

1862

expansion past 100th meridian into land lacking water

1870s

Colorado became state after Pikes Peak gold rush

1876

No frontier line

1890