Earth I come.” This is not a statement made in haste but a declaration of war, coming from the mouth of a Sioux warrior, a Dakota. They call him Crooked Lightning. That was the first and only true announcement about the planned uprising from the Dakota Nation. The Sioux Uprising of 1862 was appallingly deadly and destructive considering it may have been avoided if the United States had paid the Sioux their gold on time. The Dakota Nation didn’t just wake up one day and decide to attack the settlers.
Little chuck little in To Kill a Mockingbird is shown to be a brave little boy who stands up for everyone. He is a 1st grader with the mindset of an adult, and his real name is Charles. Little Chuck little is defensive towards others. Little Chuck is shown defending Burris when Mrs. Caroline is frightened when their is lice in Burris’s hair little Chuck said “There ain’t no need to fear a cootie, ma’am. Ain’t you ever seen one? Now don’t you be afraid, you just go back to your desk and teach us some
The first movie, which had the biggest impression on me, is called Let Them Eat Grass. It describes the Dakota War of 1862. This warfare between several tribes of Dakota, also regarded as Sioux by French people, and the United States of America was the fiercest and sanguinary part of Sioux Wars. The Federal government treated Dakota people poorly for many years. In addition, local traders and American settlers did not regard the members of this tribe as equal and free citizens of the US. Consequently
The Dakota people The Dakota people are one of the many Native American tribes in America. The Native Americans are the first people to discover and live in America. They originally come from East-Asia and Siberia but there is still a lot of discussion on how they travelled to America. The most popular theory is that they crossed the Bering Strait. Native Americans are split into many different tribes throughout the whole of America. The Dakota people are divided into Eastern and Western Dakota. Eastern
I THESIS STATEMENT The Homestead Act of 1862 made surveyed lands obtainable to homesteaders. The act stated that men and women over the age of 21, unmarried women who were head of households and married men under the age of 21, who did not own over 160 acres of land anywhere, were citizens or intended on becoming citizens of the United States, were eligible to homestead. This paper will show how the Homestead Act came to be enacted, who the homesteaders were and the effects of the Homestead Act
Custer was a United States Army officer and cavalry commander in the American Civil War and also in the Indian Wars. Raised in the cities Michigan and Ohio, Custer was admitted in West Point in 1858, where he was graduated last in his class. However, with outbreak of the Civil War, all officers were needed, and Custer was called in to serve for the Union. General Custer developed a strong reputation throughout the Civil War. He fought in the first major engagement, and also in the First Battle of Bull
The Domestication of the Last Frontier In 1865 the frontier line generally followed the western limits of the states bordering the Mississippi River, bulging outward to include the eastern sections of Kansas and Nebraska. Beyond this thin edge of pioneer farms, lay the prairie and sagebrush lands that stretched to the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. Then, for nearly 1,600 kilometers, loomed the huge bulk of mountain ranges, many rich in silver, gold and other metals. On the far side, plains and
On May 20th of 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed, and put into effect, the Homestead Act of 1862. The Homestead Act opened up more than half a million square miles in the Western half the the United States during the Civil War. The Homestead Act was a major turning point in American History. It was a huge milestone for American history because its consequences included implications during the Civil War, but also paved the way for westward expansion within the United States. The Homestead Act
The Westward Expansion was a turning point on United States becoming a continental agricultural and manufacturing power. United States wanted to explore and settle into the West after the Louisiana Purchase as the result of the War of 1812. Many pioneers and families moved west between 1816 and 1821. The land was purchased by the federal government to sell it at a very high price to the farmers. The farmers were willing to purchase land with the increase of American agricultural products. The state
period where Americans and immigrants from around the world came and settled for new land. It was a time where the federal government encouraged western settlement and economic exploitation. The United States of America came of age after the civil war. In a period of less than fifty years, it was transformed from a rural republic to an urban state. The frontier had vanished. Great factories and steel mills, transcontinental railroad lines, flourishing cities, vast agricultural holdings marked the
also went to Miami University from 1850 to 1852. Benjamin graduated with high honors with a degree in law. He entered law practice after graduating and became active in the Republican party. Benjamin also became part of the military in 1862 to fight in the Civil War and was promoted to Brigadier General. Benjamin Harrison was sworn into office on March 4, 1889. His term was from March 4, 1889 to
such as the Crow and Assiniboin. This paper will explain the history behind Sitting Bull and how he grew into a warrior, a chief and how his life was tragically put to an end. Yotanka was born in 1831 in the Grand River region of present-day South Dakota. Tatanka’s father did not at first name him Sitting Bull but rather Jumping Badger, which would be replaced with something more suitable at the appropriate time in his growth. “No one called the boy Jumping Badger, however, for his willful and deliberate
(deathpenaltyinfo.org). Kendall was executed for being a spy for the Spanish government and he was executed by firing squad. After Kendall’s execution many other executions took place. “In 1862, 38 Native Americans were hanged simultaneously in Mankato, Minnesota, for murder and rapes committed during the Dakota War;
expansion activities. In this period, several small and large scale of massacres were conducted throughout the southeast part of the nation. Among these massacres, the 1813 Fort Mims and Autossee Massacre, the 1850 Yontoket Massacre and the Dakota War of 1862 caused an excessive number of more than 200 casualties each time. Also, the Indian Removal Act that passed on May 1830 forced the local tribes to migrate to the west of the
American Indian Wars There is perhaps a tendency to view the record of the military in terms of conflict, that may be why the U.S. Army’s operational experience in the quarter century following the Civil War became known as the Indian wars. Previous struggles with the Indian, dating back to colonial times, had been limited. There was a period where the Indian could withdraw or be pushed into vast reaches of uninhabited and as yet unwanted territory in the west. By 1865 the safety valve was fast
(Immigration 1). Over twenty-five thousand Chinese immigrants settled in the United States in 1868 and 1869 and eventually obtained citizenship (Cultural 2). The Union Pacific Railroad employed mainly Irish immigrants, many of whom had served in the Civil War. After the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad, many new immigrants settled in the western states and territories. Immigrants who came in through immigration stations, such as Ellis Island, used the Transcontinental Railroad to move to new
massacre was brutal, the Indians were butchered and around 450 Cheyenne died. The government tried to enforce another policy, the concentration policy stated that the Plain Indians would be confined into two small reservations. One was in Black Hills of Dakota Territory and another was located in Oklahoma. This policy was later upheld because when gold was found in the Black Hill in 1874, the whites came rushing in and taking over the territory. The
Industrialization after the Civil War Industrialization after the civil war changes the United States to an industrialized nation. There are three major points as described in my thesis. First one is building of the railways. Railway industrialization was a major achievement for the United States in becoming a Industrialized nation. It revolutionized the factory, business oriented works. Second one is gold rush. Prior to 1887, banks generally extends loans to the farmer for agriculture but the blizzards
Orleans, Cincinnati and St Louis being cities that were in the process of expansion as well. In 1862 the government pass the first Pacific Railroad Act which allowed the government to give bonds, lands and grants to the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific Railroads company. During this time on the expansion both the Pacific and the Central railroad suffered a shortage on personnel due to the Civil War and slow down the process of expansion. The continuation of the western expansion was based on
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce was born on June 24, 1842 in Meigs County, Ohio. His parents, Marcus Aurelius Bierce and Laura Sherwood Bierce, had thirteen children, and Ambrose was the tenth of the thirteen. Ambrose’s idiosyncratic father decided to start the names of all thirteen of his children with the letter A. His family was poor, so his parents decided to move to Ohio, like many other families, in hopes that the westward expansion might help them financially. When they realized the riches they