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American West c1835 - c1895 Flashcards

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1885

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All Plains Indians are resettled on to reservations .

Northern herd of Buffalo is completely destroyed.

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California Gold rush

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1849

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C1834

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Permanent Indian Frontier set up.

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Medicine Lodge Creek.
Abilene becomes first cow town.
‘The Beef Bonanza’.

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1867

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Fort Laramie Treaty(1).

Indian Appropriations Act.

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1851

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1864

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Sand Creek Massacre.

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Cattle Ranching begins on the Plains which led to the open range.

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1870

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Homestead Act.
Little Crow’s War.
Pacific Railway Act passed and work begins on the transcontinental railway.

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1862

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1848

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Gold discovered in California.

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All Plains Indians are resettled on to reservations .

Northern herd of Buffalo is completely destroyed.

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1885

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1874

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Barbed wire begins to be mass-produced.
Wind-powered water pump introduced.
Custer leads expedition to the Black Hills ignoring the Treaty of Fort Laramie.

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Serve winter leads to smaller ranches with barbed wire and wind pumps that eventually leads to the end of the cowboy era.

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1886

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1869

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Transcontinental railroad completed despite opposition from some Americans.

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Permanent Indian Frontier set up.

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C1834

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The Great Sioux War begins between the US Army and the Sioux Indians.
Battle of the Little Big Horn.

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1876

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1893

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Oklahoma Land Rush.

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Group of US Army soldiers wiped out in Fetterman’s Trap by Plains Indians.
Goodnight and Loving reach Fort Summer with 1,700 cattle.

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1866

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1859

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Gold mines opened in Colorado and Nevada.

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Battle of Wounded knee.

US Government closes Frontier in which Plains Indians had lost their land.

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1890

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1892

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Johnson county war.

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1843

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First settlers arrive in Oregon encouraged by government legislation.

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First homesteaders move to the Plains.

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1850s

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1881

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Sitting Bull and followers surrender to the American Government.
OK Corral.

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Oregon trail opens.

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1836

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End of the American Civil War.

Slavery abolished in the US.

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1865

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1866-68

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Red Cloud’s War on the US Government in their attempt to build fort in Montana.

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Start of the American Civil War between North and South America.

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1861

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Donner party head west but meet with disaster and death.

Mormons travel to the Great Salt Lake haven been driven out of Nauvoo.

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1846

29
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1858-9

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Gold discovered in the Pikes Peak region of the Rocky mountains.

30
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1868

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‘The Winter Campaign’

Fort Laramie Treaty (2)

31
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Black Hills Gold Rush .

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1875

32
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1890

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Battle of Wounded knee.

US Government closes Frontier in which Plains Indians had lost their land.+

33
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Red Cloud’s War on the US Government in their attempt to build forts in Montana.

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1866-68

34
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1887

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Dawes Act.

35
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Barbed wire begins to be mass-produced.
Wind-powered water pump introduced.
Custer leads expedition to the Black Hills ignoring the Treaty of Fort Laramie.

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1874

36
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Sand Creek Massacre.

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1864

37
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Gold discovered in California.

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1848

38
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1886

A

Serve winter leads to smaller ranches with barbed wire and wind pumps that eventually leads to the end of the cowboy era.

39
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Johnson County war.

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1892

40
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Gold discovered in the Pikes Peak region of the Rocky mountains.

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1858-9

41
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1844

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Mormon Persecution in Nauvoo.

42
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Exoduster movement.

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1879

43
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1870

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Cattle ranching begins on the Plains which led to the ‘Open Range’.

44
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Sitting Bull and followers surrender to the American Government.
OK Corral.

A

1881

45
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1851

A

Fort Laramie Treaty (1).

Indian Appropriations Act.

46
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1866

A

Group of US Army soldiers wiped out in Fetterman’s Trap by Plains Indians.
Goodnight and Loving reach Fort Summer with 1,700 cattle.

47
Q

Gold mines opened in Colorado and Nevada.

A

1859

48
Q

Dawes Act.

A

1887

49
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1849

A

California Gold Rush.

50
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First settlers arrive in Oregon encouraged by Government legislation.

A

1843

51
Q

‘The Winter Campaign’.

Fort Laramie Treaty.

A

1868

52
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Mormon persecution in Nauvoo.

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1844

53
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Timber and Culture Act.

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1873

54
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Transcontinental railroad completed despite opposition from some Americans.

A

1869

55
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1867

A

Medicine Lodge Creek.
Abilene becomes first cow town.
‘The Beef Bonanza’.

56
Q

1879

A

Exoduster movement.

57
Q

1862

A

Homestead Act.
Little Crow’s War.
Pacific Railway Act passed and work begins on the transcontinental railway.

58
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1836

A

Oregon Trail opens.

59
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1850s

A

First Homesteaders move to the Plains.

60
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1873

A

Timer and Culture Act.

61
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Oklahoma Land rush.

A

1893

62
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1865

A

End of the US civil war.

Slavery abolished.

63
Q

1846

A

Donner Party head west but meet with disaster and death.

Mormons travel to the great salt lake having been driven out of Nauvoo.

64
Q

1875

A

Black Hills Gold rush.

65
Q

1876

A

The Great Sioux War begins between the US Army and the Sioux Indians.
Battle of the Little Big Horn.

66
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1861

A

Start of the American civil war between North and South America.

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