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Advanced Placement

AP US History · Topic 6.3

Westward Expansion: Social and Cultural Development

Absolute and UndisturbedSettlers, Soldiers, and the Promise of the Black Hills (1865–1890)

The 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie reserved the Black Hills to the Lakota. Custer’s 1874 report of gold opened those hills to miners, and in December 1890 soldiers killed Lakota people at Wounded Knee.

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Unit 6 1865–1898

  1. 6.1 + 6.2Westward Expansion: Economic DevelopmentFree Land
  2. 6.3Westward Expansion: Social and Cultural DevelopmentAbsolute and Undisturbed
  3. 6.4The “New South”Separate as the Fingers
  4. 6.5 + 6.6Technological Innovation and The Rise of Industrial CapitalismThe Price of Light
  5. 6.7Labor in the Gilded AgeEight Hours for What We Will
  6. 6.8 + 6.9Immigration and Migration in the Gilded Age and Responses to Immigration in the Gilded AgeMother of Exiles
  7. 6.10 + 6.11Development of the Middle Class and Reform in the Gilded AgeLooking Backward
  8. 6.12 + 6.13Controversies over the Role of Government in the Gilded Age and Politics in the Gilded AgeCross of Gold
  9. 6.14Continuity and Change in Period 6The White City

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