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Big Dates

• California Gold Rush (1848)

• Homestead and Pacific Railway Acts (1862)

  • Dakota War

  • Transcontinential Railroad complete (1869)

  • Barbed Wire invented (1873)

  • Battle of Little Bighorn (1876)

  • Chinese Exclusion Act passes (1882)

  • Dawes Act (1887)

    • tribal lands divided into homesteads

    • excess land sold to settlers