America- Key dates

Question 1

What was the year that Joseph Smith said he wished to run for president

Answer 1

1844

Question 2

When was Joseph Smith murdered?

Answer 2

1845

Question 3

When did the Mormons travel west?

Answer 3

between 1845 and 1846

Question 4

When was the decision made for the Mormons to move to Utah?

Answer 4

1845

Question 5

When did Brigham Young die?

Answer 5

1877

Question 6

When did the Mormons arrive to the west?

Answer 6

1848

Question 7

What year did people start to arrive in California to mine?

Answer 7

1849, hence the name 49ers

Question 8

What year did the donner party move west?

Answer 8

1846

Question 9

What year did the Sagar party move west?

Answer 9

1844

Question 10

What year did the Gould party move west?

Answer 10

1862

Question 11

When was Sioux’s war with their Eastern neighbours Ojibwa?

Answer 11

Between 1835 and 1845

Question 12

When was the Indian Settlement Act?

Answer 12

1830

Question 13

When was the Oregon trail mainly used?

Answer 13

between 1840-1848

Question 14

When was the Indians Appropriations Act?

Answer 14

1851

Question 15

When was the Fort Laramie treaty signed?

Answer 15

1851

Question 16

When was gold found in Colorado?

Answer 16

1858

Question 17

When was the Cheyenne Uprising?

Answer 17

1863-64

Question 18

When was the Sandcreek Massacre?

Answer 18

1864

Question 19

When was the Red Cloud’s War?

Answer 19

1865-1868

Question 20

When was the Fetterman massacre?

Answer 20

1866-1868

Question 21

When was the Little Crow’s War?

Answer 21

1861-1862

Question 22

When did New Jersey (the last state to end slavery) end slavery?

Answer 22

1804

Question 23

When was the Missouri compromise?

Answer 23

1820

Question 24

When was the publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

Answer 24

1851

Question 25

When was the Kansas Nebraska Act?

Answer 25

1854

Question 26

When was John Brown hung for treason?

Answer 26

1859

Question 27

When was Lincoln elected as president?

Answer 27

1860

Question 28

When was the confederacy formed because the states seceded?

Answer 28

1861

Question 29

When was slavery in the British Empire abolished?

Answer 29

1833

Question 30

When was the anti-slavery society set up?

Answer 30

1832

Question 31

When were 12,000 slaves resettled in Liberia by?

Answer 31

1860

Question 32

When was the transcontinental railroad set up?

Answer 32

1786

Question 33

When did California request to enter the Union as a free state (Compromise of 1850)

Answer 33

1849

Question 34

When was the emancipation proclamation given?

Answer 34

1863

Question 35

When was the American Civil War?

Answer 35

1861-1865

Question 36

When did France abolish slavery?

Answer 36

1794

Question 37

When was the Mormon war?

Answer 37

1857-58

Question 38

When was the Mormon militia leader, John Lee executed?

Answer 38

1877

Question 39

When did Utah apply for the 5th time to be part of the Union?

Answer 39

1890

Question 40

When did the government let Utah be part of the Union (on their terms)

Answer 40

1896

Question 41

What period of time was the reconstruction?

Answer 41

1865-77

Question 42

When was the 13th amendment?

Answer 42

1865

Question 43

When was the 14th amendment?

Answer 43

1868

Question 44

When was the 15th amendment?

Answer 44

1870

Question 45

When did Abraham Lincoln die?

Answer 45

1865

Question 46

When did the Conservative Southern Democrats regain power?

Answer 46

1877

Question 47

When was the Homestead Act passed?

Answer 47

1862

Question 48

When was the Desert Land Act passed?

Answer 48

1877

Question 49

When was the railroad built?

Answer 49

1869

Question 50

When was the Timber Culture Act passed?

Answer 50

1873

Question 51

When was barbed wire invented?

Answer 51

1874

Question 52

When was the Great Sioux War?

Answer 52

1876-77

Question 53

When was the Battle of the Rosebud?

Answer 53

1876

Question 54

When was the Dawes act?

Answer 54

1887

Question 55

When was the battle of the wounded knee?

Answer 55

1890