America History Dates Flashcards
1776
America declared independence
1846
Donner party got stuck in the mountains
Late 1700s and early 1800s
Mountain men went out west
1849
Miners went out west - California gold rush
1848
America defeated Mexico to win the south west
1850 (2 things)
Compromise allowed California to join as a free slave state in return for the fugitive slave act
California became a state as a result of the gold rush immigration
1837
Economic crisis in the eastern states that pushed a lot of people out west
1845
Joseph smith was murdered
24th January 1848
Gold was discovered in California
1823
The year that Joseph smith set up the church of Latter Day Saints the mormons
1851 (3 things)
Uncle toms cabin by Harriet beached Stowe was written/released
US government passed the Indian appropriations act
FIRST fort Laramie treaty passed
1830
Indian removal act was passed
Permanent Indian frontier
1851-65
Conflict with the Sioux
1863-69
Transcontinental railroad was built
1863-67
Cheyenne war
First Sioux land
1864
Sand creek massacre
1867
Battle of washita
1868 (2 things)
SECOND Fort Laramie treaty passed
US government admit defeat by red cloud
1865-68
Red clouds war
1862 (2 things)
Americans left trails and invaded Indian land for Gold in the Rocky Mountains
Homestead act
1858 ( 2 things)
Gold rush in Colorado and Kansas
Mormons pardoned and US army stationed in Utah
1850s
Farmers moving onto plains
1866
Fettermans fort vs Sioux attacking loggers
1861-65
American civil war
1860
Election for American president- Abraham Lincoln
1857
Mountain meadow massacre
1863
Emancipation of slavery through 13th amendment
1820
Missouri compromise
1854
Kansas-Nebraska act
1896
Utah joined as a state
1865
Slavery banned
