American Weat Flashcards
When was the permanent Indian frontier set up
1834
Meant that Indians had there own land to live and hunt on
When was the Oregan trail set up
1836
This meant that it was easier for people to cross over Indian territory
It angered the Indians as it crossed some of there sacred land
Mormon persecution in Nauvoo
1844
Led to the Mormons moving to Salt Lake City
Donner party head west but are met with disaster
1846
Scared homesteaders and people into crossing the plains
Mormons move to Salt Lake City
1846
Gold discovered in California
1848
Led to the gold rush, railway, increase in population in the west
First homesteaders move to the plains
1850s
Fort Laramie treatment
1851
Where the US set up a treaty to try to end the violence between tribes and homesteaders
Indian Appropriation Act
1851
Where the government moved plains Indians into reservations
Gold mines set up in Colorado and Nevada
1859
Led to increase in population as there more jobs
Start of American civil war
1861
Conflict between America and less trade
Homestead act
1862
Where Americans could pay a small amount to move to the plains and farm the land
They got 160 acres
Emancipation proclamation
1863
Slavery
Sand creek massacre
1864
When a group of Indians who attached a wagon trial just taking food as they had none
Colonel Chivington staked them and killed 150
He was disgraced for this
End of the civil war
1865
Pacific railway act passed and work begins
1862
Easier to transport people across west
Little crows war
1862
Red clouds war on the US government and the attempt to build fortresses in Montana
1866
Goodnight and loving reach fort summer with 1,700 cattle
1866
Abilene first cow town
1867
Transcontinental railway completed
1869
Cattle ranching began on the plains
1870
Timber and culture act
1873
Barbed wire is mass produced
1874
