Chapter 17: Americans Move West () Flashcards ...
(1889) the first land rush into the Unassigned Lands; President Benjamin Harrison agreed to open up 2 million acres of land in Indian Territory to settlement by citizens at exactly 12noon on April 22, 1889 anyone who lived on the land and improved it, could keep it without having to pay for it; 50,00060,000 people lined up to race to grab their 40 acres of land when the clock struck 12