An Act to provide for the allotment of lands in severalty to Indians on the various reservations, and to extend the protection of the laws of the United States and the Territories over the Indians, and for other purposes.
the Emancipation Proclamation officially took effect, the ideals of the Proclamation had been carefully contemplated by President Lincoln many months before.
Generally speaking, from the 1830s on, people hoping to settle in the Northwest "B-traveled along the Oregon Trail," since this had become a well-established route.
