American West c1835 - c1895 Flashcards
1885
All Plains Indians are resettled on to reservations .
Northern herd of Buffalo is completely destroyed.
California Gold rush
1849
C1834
Permanent Indian Frontier set up.
Medicine Lodge Creek.
Abilene becomes first cow town.
‘The Beef Bonanza’.
1867
Fort Laramie Treaty(1).
Indian Appropriations Act.
1851
1864
Sand Creek Massacre.
Cattle Ranching begins on the Plains which led to the open range.
1870
Homestead Act.
Little Crow’s War.
Pacific Railway Act passed and work begins on the transcontinental railway.
1862
1848
Gold discovered in California.
All Plains Indians are resettled on to reservations .
Northern herd of Buffalo is completely destroyed.
1885
1874
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.
Serve winter leads to smaller ranches with barbed wire and wind pumps that eventually leads to the end of the cowboy era.
1886
1869
Transcontinental railroad completed despite opposition from some Americans.
Permanent Indian Frontier set up.
C1834
The Great Sioux War begins between the US Army and the Sioux Indians.
Battle of the Little Big Horn.
1876
1893
Oklahoma Land Rush.
Group of US Army soldiers wiped out in Fetterman’s Trap by Plains Indians.
Goodnight and Loving reach Fort Summer with 1,700 cattle.
1866
1859
Gold mines opened in Colorado and Nevada.
Battle of Wounded knee.
US Government closes Frontier in which Plains Indians had lost their land.
1890
1892
Johnson county war.
1843
First settlers arrive in Oregon encouraged by government legislation.
First homesteaders move to the Plains.
1850s
1881
Sitting Bull and followers surrender to the American Government.
OK Corral.
Oregon trail opens.
1836
End of the American Civil War.
Slavery abolished in the US.
1865
1866-68
Red Cloud’s War on the US Government in their attempt to build fort in Montana.
Start of the American Civil War between North and South America.
1861
Donner party head west but meet with disaster and death.
Mormons travel to the Great Salt Lake haven been driven out of Nauvoo.
1846
1858-9
Gold discovered in the Pikes Peak region of the Rocky mountains.
1868
‘The Winter Campaign’
Fort Laramie Treaty (2)
Black Hills Gold Rush .
1875
1890
Battle of Wounded knee.
US Government closes Frontier in which Plains Indians had lost their land.+
Red Cloud’s War on the US Government in their attempt to build forts in Montana.
1866-68
1887
Dawes Act.
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.
1874
Sand Creek Massacre.
1864
Gold discovered in California.
1848
1886
Serve winter leads to smaller ranches with barbed wire and wind pumps that eventually leads to the end of the cowboy era.
Johnson County war.
1892
Gold discovered in the Pikes Peak region of the Rocky mountains.
1858-9
1844
Mormon Persecution in Nauvoo.
Exoduster movement.
1879
1870
Cattle ranching begins on the Plains which led to the ‘Open Range’.
Sitting Bull and followers surrender to the American Government.
OK Corral.
1881
1851
Fort Laramie Treaty (1).
Indian Appropriations Act.
1866
Group of US Army soldiers wiped out in Fetterman’s Trap by Plains Indians.
Goodnight and Loving reach Fort Summer with 1,700 cattle.
Gold mines opened in Colorado and Nevada.
1859
Dawes Act.
1887
1849
California Gold Rush.
First settlers arrive in Oregon encouraged by Government legislation.
1843
‘The Winter Campaign’.
Fort Laramie Treaty.
1868
Mormon persecution in Nauvoo.
1844
Timber and Culture Act.
1873
Transcontinental railroad completed despite opposition from some Americans.
1869
1867
Medicine Lodge Creek.
Abilene becomes first cow town.
‘The Beef Bonanza’.
1879
Exoduster movement.
1862
Homestead Act.
Little Crow’s War.
Pacific Railway Act passed and work begins on the transcontinental railway.
1836
Oregon Trail opens.
1850s
First Homesteaders move to the Plains.
1873
Timer and Culture Act.
Oklahoma Land rush.
1893
1865
End of the US civil war.
Slavery abolished.
1846
Donner Party head west but meet with disaster and death.
Mormons travel to the great salt lake having been driven out of Nauvoo.
1875
Black Hills Gold rush.
1876
The Great Sioux War begins between the US Army and the Sioux Indians.
Battle of the Little Big Horn.
1861
Start of the American civil war between North and South America.
