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About 100,000 Indians between Florida and Michigan migrated westward between the years 1830 and 1850. The Indians were chased from their homes because the government ran them out.

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Resembling a two-wheeled, horse-drawn chariot, the machine consisted of a vibrating cutting blade, a reel to bring the grain within its reach, and a platform to receive the falling grain. The reaper embodied the principles essential to all subsequent grain-cutting machines.

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John Deere invented the steel plow, which allowed farmers to cultivate and harvest crops more efficiently with less labor, time, and materials. the sharpness of the steel blades combined with the ability to sharpen the blades as you use it made this a must-have in the farming industry.

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was a gold rush that began on January 24, 1848, when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California. The news of gold brought approximately 300,000 people to California from the rest of the United States and abroad.

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About 100,000 Indians between Florida and Michigan migrated westward between the years 1830 and 1850. The Indians were chased from their homes because the government ran them out.

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The Comstock Lode is a lode of silver ore located under the eastern slope of Mount Davidson, a peak in the Virginia Range in Virginia City, Nevada (then western Utah Territory), which was the first major discovery of silver ore in the United States and named after American miner Henry Comstock.

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The Homestead act allowed any citizen or intended citizen who had never borne arms against the US government to gain 160 acres of government land.

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Little Crow attempted to restrain his tribe from attacking white settlers and the US government, but on the 17 August 1862 four Sioux men killed five white settlers. The following day, Little Crow launched an attack on the Indian Agency believing that they would be too preoccupied by the civil war to fight back

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The US planned an ambush on a noncombatant camp of Arapaho and Cheyenne Indians, where at least 150 Indians died.

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Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction

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The Freedman's Bureau helped Freedmen establish schools, legalize marriage, supplied necessities such as food and shelter, and many other things.

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No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

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The Indian Peace Commission was the US's last attempt at making peace with the Indians; specifically the more "hostile" tribes. The US Government's strategy was to pressure the tribes into agreeing with them, which ultimately did not work.

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By connecting the existing eastern U.S. rail networks to the west coast, the Transcontinental Railroad (known originally as the "Pacific Railroad") became the first continuous railroad line across the United States. It was constructed between 1863 and 1869

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The 15th amendment allowed all citizens, regardless of race or color, vote. except for women.

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The first patent in the United States for barbed wire was issued in 1867 to Lucien B. Smith of Kent, Ohio, who is regarded as the inventor. Joseph F. Glidden of DeKalb, Illinois, received a patent for the modern invention in 1874 after he made his own modifications to previous versions.

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The Battle of Little Bighorn was a major, although temporary, victory for the Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians. With the death of both Custer and his troops, the Indians were celebrating only until the US figured they should increase their efforts to run out the Indians into the west.