Question

In the 1870s, when gold was discovered in the Blacks Hills, the federal government first tried to

Answer 1

Answer:

A. buy the territory from the American Indians.

Answer 2

Custer and the military units searched for a suitable location for a fort, civilians searched for gold, and it is disputed whether or not any substantial amount was found. Nonetheless, this prompted a mass gold rush which in turn antagonised the Sioux Indians who had been promised protection of their sacred land through Treaties made by the US government,[2] and who were later to kill Custer at the Battle of the Little Big Horn in the Great Sioux War of 1876–1877 between themselves and the United States.