History dates - American West

Question 0

What happened in 1842

Answer 0

Pre-emption Bill passed allowing land in Oregon to be sold cheap encouraging people to go there

Question 1

What happened in 1848

Answer 1

California Gold Rush

Question 2

What date did the Donner party depart west?

Answer 2

1846

Question 3

What year did Joseph Smith publish the book of Mormon?

Answer 3

1830

Question 4

When did Joseph Smith die?

Answer 4

June 27th 1844

Question 5

What date did Joseph Smith claim that God had told him to practise polygamy?

Answer 5

1844

Question 6

What year did the Mormons move west?

Answer 6

1847

Question 7

What year did the US win Great Salt Lake City from Mexico?

Answer 7

1848

Question 8

When was the civil war?

Answer 8

1861-65

Question 9

When was the homestead act passed?

Answer 9

1862, gave 160 acres of free land for settlers who were willing to farm it for five years

Question 10

When was the timber culture act passed?

Answer 10

1873, allowed settlers another 160 acres as long as they planted 40 acres with trees

Question 11

When was the desert land act passed?

Answer 11

1875, gave settlers the right to buy 640 acres cheaply in desert areas

Question 12

When was the first full railroad completed?

Answer 12

1869

Question 13

When was the self governing windmill made?

Answer 13

1874

Question 14

When was barbed wire invented?

Answer 14

1874

Question 15

When was the refrigerated rail car invented?

Answer 15

1880

Question 16

When was the first fort Laramie treaty made?

Answer 16

1851

Question 17

When did little crows war happen?

Answer 17

1862

Question 18

When did the sand creek massacre happen?

Answer 18

1864

Question 19

When did red clouds war happens?

Answer 19

1865

Question 20

When was the second fort Laramie treaty made?

Answer 20

1868

Question 21

When was gold discovered in the black hills?

Answer 21

1874

Question 22

When was the Wyoming stock growers association formed?

Answer 22

1870s

Question 23

When did the Johnson county war happen?

Answer 23

1892

Question 24

When did Joseph Mccoy make Abilene?

Answer 24

1867

Question 25

When did the battle of Little Bighorn happen

Answer 25

June 25th 1876

Question 26

What date did the battle of rosebud happen?

Answer 26

17th June 1876

Question 27

What date did crazy horse surrender?

Answer 27

5th may 1877

Question 28

What date did crazy horse die?

Answer 28

6th September 1877

Question 29

When did sitting bull surrender?

Answer 29

1881

Question 30

When was the Dawes Act passed?

Answer 30

1887

Question 31

When was the Oklahoma land grab?

Answer 31

1889

Question 32

When was the battle of wounded knee?

Answer 32

1890