The Federal Government was the key in both immigration to Native American lands and the defeat of Native Americans.There was no "Federal Government" when Boone and Kenton crossed over the Appalachian Mountains into "Kan-tuck-ee". They educated their own children, they built their own roads, they built their own factories, they cleared their own fields and they grew their own food. And to defend themselves from marauding bands of Frenchmen and Warren's **ancestors**, they built their own forts which they manned themselves. When good old King George said they couldn't keep what they had built, they fought the British too.
http://loc.gov/teachers/classroommat...eind/railroad/
Beginning in the early 1870s, railroad construction in the United States increased dramatically. Prior to 1871, approximately 45,000 miles of track had been laid. Between 1871 and 1900, another 170,000 miles were added to the nation's growing railroad system. Much of the growth can be attributed to the building of the transcontinental railroads. In 1862, Congress passed the Pacific Railway Act, which authorized the construction of a transcontinental railroad. The first such railroad was completed on May 10, 1869. By 1900, four additional transcontinental railroads connected the eastern states with the Pacific Coast.
Four of the five transcontinental railroads were built with assistance from the federal government through land grants. Receiving millions of acres of public lands from Congress, the railroads were assured land on which to lay the tracks and land to sell, the proceeds of which helped companies finance the construction of their railroads. Not all railroads were built with government assistance, however. Smaller railroads had to purchase land on which to lay their tracks from private owners, some of whom objected to the railroads and refused to grant rights of way
The Indian Wars
http://www.cyberlearning-world.com/n...ct/totears.htmThis series of bloody battles started several years after the end of the Civil War, due to the demand of Indian territory by the white Americans and ended with the massacre at Wounded Knee in 1890. Thousands of native Americans were slaughtered by the cruel Union Army, led by generals such as Custer, Gabon, and Sherman. The Native Americans, led by heroes such as Sitting Bull, Chief Joseph, and Crazy Horse, fought outnumbered for many years before being defeated one by one at the hands of the Federal Government. They won many battles, such as the Kidder massacre, in which they killed an entire regiment, with only 2 casualties themselves. Originally Posted by WTF
BTW, your source should have said "Gibbon", Major General (Colonel) John Gibbon, and Custer was a Lieutenant Colonel at the Little Big Horn.
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