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The West (American Indians in the West (The American Indians who occupied…

- - - - The Sioux, Blackfoot, Cheyenne, Crow, and Comanche gave up farming in colonial times after the introduction of the horse by the Spanish, and by the 1700s, they became skillful horse riders and developed a way of life centered on the hunting of buffalo.
  - - - They refused to restrict their movements tot he reservations and continued to follow the migrating buffalo wherever they roamed.
  - - - The Indian Appropriation Act of 1871 ended recognition of tribes as independent nations by the federal government and nullified previous treaties made with the tribes.
        
        The constant pressure of the U.S. Army forced tribe after tribe to comply with Washington's terms.
- - - - Political pressure from western states moved Congress to pass the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882, which prohibited further immigration to the U.S. by Chinese laborers. This was the first major act of Congress to restrict immigration on the basis of race and nationality.
- - - - 500,000 families took advantage of the Homestead Act, but five times that number purchased their land because the best public lands often ended up in the hands of railroad companies and speculators.
- - - - Mexican Americans moved to find work and were drawn by the explosive economic development of the region.