America History Dates

Question 1

1776

Answer 1

America declared independence

Question 2

1846

Answer 2

Donner party got stuck in the mountains

Question 3

Late 1700s and early 1800s

Answer 3

Mountain men went out west

Question 4

1849

Answer 4

Miners went out west - California gold rush

Question 5

1848

Answer 5

America defeated Mexico to win the south west

Question 6

1850 (2 things)

Answer 6

Compromise allowed California to join as a free slave state in return for the fugitive slave act
California became a state as a result of the gold rush immigration

Question 7

1837

Answer 7

Economic crisis in the eastern states that pushed a lot of people out west

Question 8

1845

Answer 8

Joseph smith was murdered

Question 9

24th January 1848

Answer 9

Gold was discovered in California

Question 10

1823

Answer 10

The year that Joseph smith set up the church of Latter Day Saints the mormons

Question 11

1851 (3 things)

Answer 11

Uncle toms cabin by Harriet beached Stowe was written/released

US government passed the Indian appropriations act

FIRST fort Laramie treaty passed

Question 12

1830

Answer 12

Indian removal act was passed

Permanent Indian frontier

Question 13

1851-65

Answer 13

Conflict with the Sioux

Question 14

1863-69

Answer 14

Transcontinental railroad was built

Question 15

1863-67

Answer 15

Cheyenne war

First Sioux land

Question 16

1864

Answer 16

Sand creek massacre

Question 17

1867

Answer 17

Battle of washita

Question 18

1868 (2 things)

Answer 18

SECOND Fort Laramie treaty passed

US government admit defeat by red cloud

Question 19

1865-68

Answer 19

Red clouds war

Question 20

1862 (2 things)

Answer 20

Americans left trails and invaded Indian land for Gold in the Rocky Mountains

Homestead act

Question 21

1858 ( 2 things)

Answer 21

Gold rush in Colorado and Kansas

Mormons pardoned and US army stationed in Utah

Question 22

1850s

Answer 22

Farmers moving onto plains

Question 23

1866

Answer 23

Fettermans fort vs Sioux attacking loggers

Question 24

1861-65

Answer 24

American civil war

Question 25

1860

Answer 25

Election for American president- Abraham Lincoln

Question 26

1857

Answer 26

Mountain meadow massacre

Question 27

1863

Answer 27

Emancipation of slavery through 13th amendment

Question 28

1820

Answer 28

Missouri compromise

Question 29

1854

Answer 29

Kansas-Nebraska act

Question 30

1896

Answer 30

Utah joined as a state

Question 31

1865

Answer 31

Slavery banned