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Reservation System (Native Americans) |
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| As settlers moved west, the Native Americans were originally designated the Great Plains area in 1834, but in the 1850's the government changed the policy and created treaties that gave specifically designed boundaries (much smaller). The Native Americans ignored the treaties and continued to hunt on their traditional lands, but there were tragic consequences. |
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- designed to 'Americanize" the Native Americans - broke up reservation land and gave some to individual Native Americans and the rest sold to settlers with the $ going to the Native Americans. - In the end 2/3 of the land was sold and $0 was paid. |
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-Towns that were set up to ship cattle from the west to the east. - The towns were located where trails and rails met |
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The cattle industry grew tremendously in the two decades after the Civil War, moving into western Kansas and Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, and the Dakotas in the 1870s and 1880s with the expansion of the railroads. Cattle ranching was in fact a big business that attracted foreign investment and required considerable organization. |
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Trails used to move cattle to railroad lines to get it to the east for slaughter |
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| The Homestead Act of 1862 |
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-To encourage settlement in the west the US governmet offered 160 acres of land to any citizen, or intended citizen, who was a head of household. -1889 the land act was strengthened and 2 million acres was gieven away in Oklahoma (Sooners)
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