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☆☆☆☆☆The Dawes Act was an effort to make assimilation the government's official policy. The aim was to "Americanize" the Native Americans , cultivating in them the desire to own property and to farm.
Americans moved West in the year following the Civil War because of the mining of gold and silver which made a rapid growth of the U.S. and the frontier changed dramatically as more people moved westward.
The state of Wyoming granted women voting rights in 1890. Several other states, such as Oregon and Colorado, had granted voting rights to women before the 19th Amendment.
A 700-man force of Colorado Territory militia attacked and destroyed a village of friendly Cheyenne and Arapaho encamped in southeastern Colorado Territory. They killed and mutilated an estimated 70-163 Indians, about two-thirds of whom were women and children. This atrocity became known as the Sand Creek Massacre (also known as the Chivington Massacre, the Battle of Sand Creek or the Massacre of Cheyenne Indians).
Two of the US Army officers present refused the order to have their men attack.
They killed everyone in a American Indian village, including women and children.
Large mining companies succeeded by using machines to dig deeply for gold.
Cutting taxes for landowners
Ranchers and Farmers fought over land control.
The Geronimo Campaign.
All of the Above
The Democratic Party wanted to lower taxes and cut social programs in the south in the late 1800's
a chance to own land
Women's right to vote expanding from Western States to Eastern States
They were used to working together in communities instead of as individual families.
