American West Dates Flashcards
(40 cards)
1
Q
US won California from Mexico
A
1834
2
Q
Completion of the transcontinental railroad
A
1869
3
Q
Homestead Act
A
1862
4
Q
Civil War
A
1862-1865
5
Q
Timber Culture Act
A
1873
6
Q
California gold rush
A
1849
7
Q
Cattle drives
A
1870s
8
Q
Ranching on the open range
A
1880s
9
Q
Fort Laramie Treaty 1
A
1851
10
Q
Dawes Act
A
1889
11
Q
Permanent Indian frontier
A
1834
12
Q
Destruction of the buffalo herds
A
1870s
13
Q
Good discovered in Rocky Mountains
A
1862
14
Q
Sand Creek Massacre
A
1864
15
Q
Ghost Dance
A
1889
16
Q
Wounded Knee Massacre
A
1889
17
Q
Custer finds good in Black Hills
A
1873
18
Q
Economics depression and crops failing in eastern states
A
1830s and 1840s
19
Q
Belief in manifest destiny
A
1860s-1880s
20
Q
Fort Laramie Treaty 2
A
1868
21
Q
Battle of the Little Bighorn
A
1876
22
Q
Little Crows War
A
1862
23
Q
Reservation educating policy
A
1880s-1890s
24
Q
Government moving Indians to reservations on Great Plains
A
1825
25
Bureau of Indian affairs set up
1832
26
Permanent Indian frontier. The 'piff line'
1834
27
Completion of removal of eastern Indians onto reservations
1838
28
Mormons began their move to Salt Lake City
1846
29
Mormons in Kirtland
1831-1837
30
Mormons in Missouri
1837-1838
31
Mormons in Nauvoo
1839-1846
32
American-Mexican War: California and New Mexico become part of US
1846
33
Gold discovered in California
1848
34
Settlers began moving into Kansas and Nebraska
1854
35
Cheyenne and Arapaho began serious attacks on minors and travellers.
1861
36
Cheyenne wars began
1863
37
Red Clouds War began
1865
38
Last free Sioux under Crazy Horse surrendered
1877
39
All Indian nations on reservations
1885
40
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