16 The Conquest Of The Far West Flashcards
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1865-1867
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Sioux Wars
1
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1862
A
Homestead Act
2
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1866
A
Western cattle bonanza begins
3
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1869
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Transcontinental railroad completed
4
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1873
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Barbed wire invented
5
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1874
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Black Hills gold rush
6
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1876
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Battle of the Little Bighorn
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1877
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Desert Land Act
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1882
A
Chinese Exclusion Act
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1885
A
Twain’s Huckleberry Finn
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1887
A
Daws Act
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1889
A
Oklahoma opened to white settlement
12
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1890
A
Battle of Wounded Knee
13
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1893
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Turner’s “frontier thesis”