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American west unit 3 (Lincoln county war (a business called " the…
American west unit 3
Lincoln county war
a business called " the house " was stealing cattle and was also incharge of the county. a rival business also opened by tunstall
Tunstall hired cowboys to help protect his business but on February 1878 he was murdered and his cowboys including billy the kid
the regulators took the law into there own hands and killed the sheriff brady and his deputy. it escalated and around 19 people were killed in this conflict
billy the kid went on the run after this but was caught and was sentenced to be hung but killed the guards
the Johnson county war
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cattle barons decided hat they would attacked the kc ranch but word got out that they were headed for the town of buffalo so they were prepared when they turned up
it backfired and when the cattle barons turned up they were attacked by 300 men . they were only saved when the US Calvary arrived
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the exoduter movement
this was a mass migration of African Americans from the southern states where they were used for slavery.
by 1870 the KKK was in nearly every southern state and African americans had to share cropping which meant they couldn't buy there own land or crops so they had to share crops and profit
so eventually they moved to Kansas where they could own land and have control of there own crops and profit
the Oklahoma land rush
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it took place on April 1889. the tickets were $14. up to 60,000 people went to claim a bit of the 2 million acres of land that was up for grabs
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wounded knee
on the 28 December the army caught up with big foot and they were moved to a camp and the army was sent to disarm the Sioux and one of the leader resisted and confusion spread and firing started
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after sitting bull was shot many of hes followers joined the band of big foot . he was another leader who was taking part in the dance but the US army was also moving to arrest him aswell
ghost dance
a holy man received a vison that a Indian messiah was coming and that the Indians had to dance the ghost dance and then all of the buffalo and the dead would come back and the white Americans would disapear
this spread fast but the Indians had spy's who worked for the us army and they treated it as a war. they tried to arrest sitting bull but one of his own accidently shot him.