Historical Dates

Question 1

First use of “western” as a noun

Answer 1

1910

Question 2

the western as a fully-fledged genre

Answer 2

1920s

Question 3

The Virginian

Answer 3

Owen Wister

1902

Question 4

Fenimore Cooper

Answer 4

James Fenimore Cooper
Leatherstocking Tales (5)
1823-1841

Question 5

First talking film

Answer 5

The Jazz Singer

1927

Question 6

Turner

Answer 6

Frederick Jackson Turner
“The Significance of the Frontier in American History”
1893, Chicago
American Historical Association

Question 7

Relocation of the film industry in Hollywood

Answer 7

end of 1910s / early 1920s

Question 8

Captivity narrative

Answer 8

Mary Rowlandson
The Sovereignty and Goodness of God
1682

Question 9

Painter

Answer 9

Frederic Remington

1861 - 1909

Question 10

Theodore Roosevelt

Answer 10

1858 - 1919

Pdt from 1901 to 1909

Question 11

Meeting at Promontory Point

Answer 11

May 10th 1869

Central Pacific and Union Pacific

Question 12

Civil War

Answer 12

1861 - 1865

Question 13

Mexican-American War

Answer 13

1846-1848

Question 14

California Gold Rush

Answer 14

1848-49
Sierra Nevada

(general craze went on more or less until 1955)

Question 15

First Homestead Act

Answer 15

1862

an area of public land in the West, usually 160 acres would be granted to any US citizen willing to settle and farm the land for a min of 5 years

Question 16

Cheyenne Exodus

Answer 16

The Great Northern Cheyenne Exodus
1878-1879
300 ppl
2500 km

Question 17

Chinese Exclusion Act

Answer 17

1882

immigrant was banned and it was impossible for Chinese people to be naturalized

Question 18

Immigration Act

Answer 18

1924
quotas
ban on Asian immigration

Question 19

Louisiana Purchase

Answer 19

1803

Question 20

Indian Bureau

Answer 20

Bureau of Indian Affairs (office in the war dptmt)

1824

Question 21

big ranchers vs. settlers real-life battle

Answer 21

Johnson County War

1889-1893

Question 22

Indian Removal Act

Answer 22

Indian Removal Act
1830
Pdt Andrew Jackson

resettlement west of the Mississippi

Question 23

stats of relocation

Answer 23

100 000 people between 1820 and 1850

30 000 dead

Question 24

Cheyenne massacre

Answer 24

Sand Creek Massacre / Chivington Massacre
1864
at least 200 dead among which women and children

Question 25

Little Big Man massacre

Answer 25

Washita Massacre November 1868 Custer over 100 casualities among which women and children

Question 26

Pony Express

Answer 26

1860-61

Question 27

Battle of Little Big Horn

Answer 27

1876 | one of the greatest Indian victories

Question 28

last Indian chief to surrender

Answer 28

Geronimo (Apache) | 1886

Question 29

final blow massacre

Answer 29

Wounded Knee Massacre 1890 Sioux religious gathering over 200 killed

Question 30

book about the Native American side

Answer 30

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee Dee Brown 1970

Question 31

Acts about the northern territory

Answer 31

Northwest Ordinance Acts 1784, 87, 89 sovereignty of the American government and mandated westwards expansion

Question 32

Wyatt Earp

Answer 32

1848-1929 | Tombstone Arizona

Question 33

Ok Corral

Answer 33

Oct 26 1881

Question 34

Indian Act

Answer 34

Indian Civil Rights Act | 1968

Question 35

end of Indian boarding schools

Answer 35

Indian Self Determination & Education Assistance Act | 1975

Question 36

Vietnam War

Answer 36

1955 - 1975

Question 37

birth of studio system and major studios

Answer 37

1910s

Question 38

end of studio system

Answer 38

1948 United States vs. Paramount due to anti-trust laws

Question 39

production code

Answer 39

Motion Picture Production Code Hays Code 1922 & 1927 ends in 1968

Question 40

Old West

Answer 40

1865-1895

Question 41

race riots

Answer 41

1919 "Red Summer" | African-American workers rioting because were paid less

Question 42

factory workers riots

Answer 42

1919

Question 43

women's vote

Answer 43

19th Amendment | 1920

Question 44

Indian right to vote

Answer 44

Indian Citizenship Act | 1924

Question 45

Massacre de My Lai

Answer 45

March 1968

Question 46

act enforcing the split of collective indian lands into individual plots

Answer 46

Dawes Severalty Act February 1887