American West Dates

Question 1

What happened in 1830?

Answer 1

Indian removal act

Question 2

What year was the Indian appropriation act introduced and what is it?

Answer 2

1851 and it was when the government allocated money to Oklahoma to set up reservations

Question 3

3 reasons why people moved to the west

Answer 3

Fertile land
Independence
Gold

Question 4

What year was gold discovered?

Answer 4

1848

Question 5

When was the homestead act introduced?

Answer 5

1862

Question 6

What happened in 1851?

Answer 6

Fort Laramie treaty and the Indian appropriation act

Question 7

When was the transcontinental railroad built?

Answer 7

1869

Question 8

3 problems with living on the plains?

Answer 8

Lack of timber
Disease and lack of medical care
Isolation for the world

Question 9

Who made the first cow town?

Answer 9

Joseph McCoy

Question 10

Rancher vs homesteaders

Why did the ranchers get upset about the homesteaders

Answer 10

Because the ranchers were told that they could go on the public land for free and they only bought a few plots her and there. Then the homesteaders came and started to take up the room

Question 11

When was barbed wire invented?

Answer 11

1874

Question 12

What new technology was used on the plains?

Answer 12

Barbed wire
Red turkey wheat
Wind pumps

Question 13

When did the battle of Little Bighorn happen and why?

Answer 13

Happened in 1876
Because the white Americans found gold there and they wanted the land so then they could find more gold and the government offered 6 million dollars but the Sioux declined