American West c1835 - c1895

Question 1

1885

Answer 1

All Plains Indians are resettled on to reservations .

Northern herd of Buffalo is completely destroyed.

Question 2

California Gold rush

Answer 2

1849

Question 3

C1834

Answer 3

Permanent Indian Frontier set up.

Question 4

Medicine Lodge Creek.
Abilene becomes first cow town.
‘The Beef Bonanza’.

Answer 4

1867

Question 5

Fort Laramie Treaty(1).

Indian Appropriations Act.

Answer 5

1851

Question 6

1864

Answer 6

Sand Creek Massacre.

Question 7

Cattle Ranching begins on the Plains which led to the open range.

Answer 7

1870

Question 8

Homestead Act.
Little Crow’s War.
Pacific Railway Act passed and work begins on the transcontinental railway.

Answer 8

1862

Question 9

1848

Answer 9

Gold discovered in California.

Question 10

All Plains Indians are resettled on to reservations .

Northern herd of Buffalo is completely destroyed.

Answer 10

1885

Question 11

1874

Answer 11

Barbed wire begins to be mass-produced.
Wind-powered water pump introduced.
Custer leads expedition to the Black Hills ignoring the Treaty of Fort Laramie.

Question 12

Serve winter leads to smaller ranches with barbed wire and wind pumps that eventually leads to the end of the cowboy era.

Answer 12

1886

Question 13

1869

Answer 13

Transcontinental railroad completed despite opposition from some Americans.

Question 14

Permanent Indian Frontier set up.

Answer 14

C1834

Question 15

The Great Sioux War begins between the US Army and the Sioux Indians.
Battle of the Little Big Horn.

Answer 15

1876

Question 16

1893

Answer 16

Oklahoma Land Rush.

Question 17

Group of US Army soldiers wiped out in Fetterman’s Trap by Plains Indians.
Goodnight and Loving reach Fort Summer with 1,700 cattle.

Answer 17

1866

Question 18

1859

Answer 18

Gold mines opened in Colorado and Nevada.

Question 19

Battle of Wounded knee.

US Government closes Frontier in which Plains Indians had lost their land.

Answer 19

1890

Question 20

1892

Answer 20

Johnson county war.

Question 21

1843

Answer 21

First settlers arrive in Oregon encouraged by government legislation.

Question 22

First homesteaders move to the Plains.

Answer 22

1850s

Question 23

1881

Answer 23

Sitting Bull and followers surrender to the American Government.
OK Corral.

Question 24

Oregon trail opens.

Answer 24

1836

Question 25

End of the American Civil War. | Slavery abolished in the US.

Answer 25

1865

Question 26

1866-68

Answer 26

Red Cloud's War on the US Government in their attempt to build fort in Montana.

Question 27

Start of the American Civil War between North and South America.

Answer 27

1861

Question 28

Donner party head west but meet with disaster and death. | Mormons travel to the Great Salt Lake haven been driven out of Nauvoo.

Answer 28

1846

Question 29

1858-9

Answer 29

Gold discovered in the Pikes Peak region of the Rocky mountains.

Question 30

1868

Answer 30

'The Winter Campaign' | Fort Laramie Treaty (2)

Question 31

Black Hills Gold Rush .

Answer 31

1875

Question 32

1890

Answer 32

Battle of Wounded knee. | US Government closes Frontier in which Plains Indians had lost their land.+

Question 33

Red Cloud's War on the US Government in their attempt to build forts in Montana.

Answer 33

1866-68

Question 34

1887

Answer 34

Dawes Act.

Question 35

Barbed wire begins to be mass-produced. Wind-powered water pump introduced. Custer leads expedition to the Black Hills ignoring the Treaty of Fort Laramie.

Answer 35

1874

Question 36

Sand Creek Massacre.

Answer 36

1864

Question 37

Gold discovered in California.

Answer 37

1848

Question 38

1886

Answer 38

Serve winter leads to smaller ranches with barbed wire and wind pumps that eventually leads to the end of the cowboy era.

Question 39

Johnson County war.

Answer 39

1892

Question 40

Gold discovered in the Pikes Peak region of the Rocky mountains.

Answer 40

1858-9

Question 41

1844

Answer 41

Mormon Persecution in Nauvoo.

Question 42

Exoduster movement.

Answer 42

1879

Question 43

1870

Answer 43

Cattle ranching begins on the Plains which led to the 'Open Range'.

Question 44

Sitting Bull and followers surrender to the American Government. OK Corral.

Answer 44

1881

Question 45

1851

Answer 45

Fort Laramie Treaty (1). | Indian Appropriations Act.

Question 46

1866

Answer 46

Group of US Army soldiers wiped out in Fetterman's Trap by Plains Indians. Goodnight and Loving reach Fort Summer with 1,700 cattle.

Question 47

Gold mines opened in Colorado and Nevada.

Answer 47

1859

Question 48

Dawes Act.

Answer 48

1887

Question 49

1849

Answer 49

California Gold Rush.

Question 50

First settlers arrive in Oregon encouraged by Government legislation.

Answer 50

1843

Question 51

'The Winter Campaign'. | Fort Laramie Treaty.

Answer 51

1868

Question 52

Mormon persecution in Nauvoo.

Answer 52

1844

Question 53

Timber and Culture Act.

Answer 53

1873

Question 54

Transcontinental railroad completed despite opposition from some Americans.

Answer 54

1869

Question 55

1867

Answer 55

Medicine Lodge Creek. Abilene becomes first cow town. 'The Beef Bonanza'.

Question 56

1879

Answer 56

Exoduster movement.

Question 57

1862

Answer 57

Homestead Act. Little Crow's War. Pacific Railway Act passed and work begins on the transcontinental railway.

Question 58

1836

Answer 58

Oregon Trail opens.

Question 59

1850s

Answer 59

First Homesteaders move to the Plains.

Question 60

1873

Answer 60

Timer and Culture Act.

Question 61

Oklahoma Land rush.

Answer 61

1893

Question 62

1865

Answer 62

End of the US civil war. | Slavery abolished.

Question 63

1846

Answer 63

Donner Party head west but meet with disaster and death. | Mormons travel to the great salt lake having been driven out of Nauvoo.

Question 64

1875

Answer 64

Black Hills Gold rush.

Question 65

1876

Answer 65

The Great Sioux War begins between the US Army and the Sioux Indians. Battle of the Little Big Horn.

Question 66

1861

Answer 66

Start of the American civil war between North and South America.