American West DATES Flashcards

1
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Permanent Indian Frontier set up

A

1834

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2
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Oregon Trail opened

A

1836

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3
Q

Great emigration on Oregon Trail

A

1843

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4
Q

Donner Party

A

1846

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5
Q

Mormons to Great Salt Lake

A

1846

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6
Q

Gold discovered in California

A

1848

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7
Q

California Gold Rush

A

1849

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8
Q

1st Fort Laramie Treaty

A

1851

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9
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Indian Appropriations Act

A

1851

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10
Q

Gold discovered in Rocky Mountains

A

1858

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11
Q

Gold mines opened in Colorado and Nevada

A

1859

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12
Q

American Civil War starts

A

1861

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13
Q

Homestead Act

A

May 1862

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14
Q

Little Crow’s War
1. break-in
2. eggs
3. war

A

August 4th 1862- Food warehouse break-in
August 17th 1862- 4 Santee Sioux kill 5 settlers and steal eggs
August 18th 1862- Opened fire on settlers and gov, 200 killed,200 hostages

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15
Q

Pacific Railway Act+ work on what railroad?

A

1864
Transcontinental Railroad

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16
Q

Sand Creek Massacre

A

1864

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17
Q

End of American Civil War; what’s been abolished?

A

1865
Slavery

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18
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Red Cloud’s War starts

A

1866

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19
Q

Goodnight and Loving get to what fort with a herd of cattle?

A

1866
Fort Sumner

20
Q

Fetterman’s Trap

A

1866

21
Q

Abilene becomes first cow town. Who started it?

A

1867
Joseph McCoy

22
Q

End of Red Cloud’s War

A

1868

23
Q

Grant’s Peace Policy

A

1868

24
Q

Winter Campaigns

A

1868

25
Q

2nd Fort Laramie Treaty

A

1868

26
Q

First Transcontinental Railroad completed. It was mainly immigrants who were involved in building the railroad, where were most of these from?

A

1869
China (famine) and Ireland (also famine and political upheaval)

27
Q

Cattle Ranching begins. Who started the ‘Open Range’ and where?

A

debateable… Textbook timeline says 1870, gcse pod said John Iliff started his in Wyoming in 1867 sooooooo… idk

28
Q

Timber Culture Act

A

1873
160 acres if you plant trees on 1/4

29
Q

When was modern barbed-wire invented and by who?
Bonus Q, who’s rootin-tootin lives did it destroy? (Big Hint}

A

1874, Joseph F. Glidden
Bonus Q: Cowboys because it meant that a lot of them had no need to go all across the plains

30
Q

Self-governing windmill invented. What homesteader problem did this fix?

A

1874, lack of water

31
Q

Custer leads expedition to Black Hills

A

1874

32
Q

Great Sioux War begins

A

1876

33
Q

Battle of Little Bighorn
Month+ 2 days
How many soldiers on each side?

A

June 25-26 1876
Custer’s 210 against 2000? warriors

34
Q

Exoduster Movement

A

1879

35
Q

End of Great Sioux War

A

1881

36
Q

OK Corral; how many cowboys died?

A

October 1881. 3 cowboys died

37
Q

Silly Billy tracked down and shot by Pat Garrett after escaping jail

A

1881

38
Q

All Plains Indians relocated onto reservations

A

1885

39
Q

Buffalo numbers dropped from 13 million to 200

A

1840-1885

40
Q

William Cody killed about 4280 buffalo

A

1867-68

41
Q

Dawes Act

A

1887

42
Q

Great Die-up + end of Open Range

A

1886-87

43
Q

Wounded Knee Massacre, including 2 key points+ casualties

A

1890
Ghost Dance
Accidental gunshot
250 Sioux killed, 25 white soldiers

44
Q

“Permanent” Indian Frontier closed

A

1890

45
Q

Ella Watson and Jim Averill lynched

A

1889 (date not in revision guide…)

46
Q

Johnson County War

A

1892

47
Q

Biggest Oklahoma Land Rush (Cherokee Strip). How many acres opened up for settlement?

A

1893
8 million acres