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 * Group 2** **Klondike Gold Rush**
 * Lianka Vadi,Imani Guillen,Leury Inoa**
 * The Klondike Gold Rush (also known as the Yukon Gold Rush) began on July 1897 when two ships arrived and settled in San Francisco,California with half a million dollars of gold. In 1896, gold was discovered in the Yukon Territory.Americans raced to Canada for a chance to become rich,although most people left empty handed. Miners**

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The **Chisholm Trail** was a trail used in the late 19th century to drive cattle from ranches in Texas to Kansas railheads. The trail was named after Jesse Chisholm, a trader who marked the northern part of the trail. It went from San Antonio to Abilene. Texas ranchers using the Chisholm Trail started on that route from either the Rio Grande or San Antonio, Texas, and went to the railhead of the Kansas Pacific Railway in Abilene, Kansas, where the cattle would be sold. Used only from 1867 to 1884, about 4 million catlewere driven to market on this trail.The trail is named for Jesse Chisholm but he died in 1868, too soon ever to drive cattle on the trail. The Chisholm Trail was closed by barbed wire and an 1885 Kansas quarantine law. By 1884, its last year, it was open only as far as Caldwell, in southern Kansas. In its small existence it had more than five million cattle and mustangs, the greatest movement of livestock in world history.

Group 8 Martin, Carlos P., & Jannquiria  Homestead Act of 1862  The Homestead Act enacted during the Civil war in 1862. The act provided that any adult or intended citizen can claim 160 acres of land from the government. Claimants were required to improve the plot by cultivating and dwelling the land. After 5 years, the original claimer was entitled to the property free and clear, except for a small payment for registration. The title could also be acquired after a 6-month residency and also trivial improvements. The claimant had to pay $1.25 per acre to the government. After the Civil war, the union soldiers could deduct the time they had served from the residency requirements. Even though the act was included in the Republican Party platform of 1860, support for the idea began decades earlier. Under the Articles of Confederation, before 1787 the distribution of government lands generated a lot of interest and discussion. However, the act proved to be no type of help to poverty. Very few laborers and farmers could not afford to build a farm or get what they need to work. Also, those who purchased land under the act came from areas close by their new homesteads. Unfortunately, the act became known to cause fraud and caused many problems. Group 6 the wounded knee masacare occured on december 29, 1890. Also reffered as "The Battle of The Wounded Knee". This battle is deeply respected in the native american community

Group 4:Andrea Moran, Ismael Garcia, Kent Botia


 * The Sand Creek Massacre **


 * In the spring of 1864, while the Civil War raged in the east, Chivington launched a campaign of violence against the Cheyenne and their allies, his troops attacking any and all Indians and razing their villages.** Black Kettle was a peace-seeking chief of a band of some 600 Southern Cheyenne and Arapahos that followed the buffalo along the Arkansas River of Colorado and Kansas. They reported to Fort Lyon and then camped on Sand Creek about 40 miles north shortly afterward, Chivington led a force of about 700 men into Fort Lyon, and gave the garrison notice of his plans for an attack on the Indian encampment. Although he was informed that Black Kettle has already surrendered, Chivington pressed on with what he considered the perfect opportunity to further the cause for Indian extinction. On the morning of November 29, he led his troops, many of them drinking heavily, to Sand Creek and positioned them, along with their four howitzers, around the Indian village. According to Black Kettle ““I was in the camp of the Cheyenne when Chivington made his attack…I was, at the time of the attack, sleeping in a lodge…I could see the soldiers begin to dismount. I thought they were artillerymen and were about to shell the camp (Chivington brought 4 12lb canons to Sand Creek-It was the only time in Colorado history canons were used in any type of fighting conflict)…I went to the northeast, I ran about five miles, when I came across an Indian woman driving a herd of ponies…she was a cousin of mine-one of White Antelope’s daughters. I went with her to the Smoky Hill (river). I saw as soon as the firing began, from the number of troops, that there could be no resistance, and I escaped…” On November 29, 1864 more known as a massacre that a battle the sand creek massacre happened.

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Group 9, Alissandra De Sosa and Larry Fernandez The Grange Movement The grange movement was an organization founded in 1867 by Oliver H. Kelley and six associates. . Oliver Hudson Kelley was an employee of the Department of Agriculture in the 1860s. He made a trip through the South and was astounded by the lack of sound agricultural practices he encountered. Kelley formed the National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry, a fraternal organization. Its local units were known as “ granges” and its members “ grangers.” The movement grew slowly after the panic of 1873 when it expanded rapidly. Established for educational purposes the local granges became political forums and increased in numbers as channels of farmer protest against economic abuses of the day. Grange influence was particularly strong in Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Illinois, where political pressure yielded a series of "Granger laws" designed to give legislative assistance to the farmers.