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American West DATES Flashcards

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Permanent Indian Frontier set up

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1834

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Oregon Trail opened

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1836

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Great emigration on Oregon Trail

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1843

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Donner Party

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1846

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Mormons to Great Salt Lake

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1846

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Gold discovered in California

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1848

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California Gold Rush

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1849

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1st Fort Laramie Treaty

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1851

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Indian Appropriations Act

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1851

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10
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Gold discovered in Rocky Mountains

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1858

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Gold mines opened in Colorado and Nevada

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1859

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12
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American Civil War starts

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1861

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13
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Homestead Act

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May 1862

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Little Crow’s War
1. break-in
2. eggs
3. war

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August 4th 1862- Food warehouse break-in
August 17th 1862- 4 Santee Sioux kill 5 settlers and steal eggs
August 18th 1862- Opened fire on settlers and gov, 200 killed,200 hostages

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15
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Pacific Railway Act+ work on what railroad?

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1864
Transcontinental Railroad

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Sand Creek Massacre

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1864

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End of American Civil War; what’s been abolished?

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1865
Slavery

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Red Cloud’s War starts

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1866

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Goodnight and Loving get to what fort with a herd of cattle?

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1866
Fort Sumner

20
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Fetterman’s Trap

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1866

21
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Abilene becomes first cow town. Who started it?

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1867
Joseph McCoy

22
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End of Red Cloud’s War

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1868

23
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Grant’s Peace Policy

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1868

24
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Winter Campaigns

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1868

25
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2nd Fort Laramie Treaty

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1868

26
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First Transcontinental Railroad completed. It was mainly immigrants who were involved in building the railroad, where were most of these from?

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1869
China (famine) and Ireland (also famine and political upheaval)

27
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Cattle Ranching begins. Who started the ‘Open Range’ and where?

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debateable… Textbook timeline says 1870, gcse pod said John Iliff started his in Wyoming in 1867 sooooooo… idk

28
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Timber Culture Act

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1873
160 acres if you plant trees on 1/4

29
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When was modern barbed-wire invented and by who?
Bonus Q, who’s rootin-tootin lives did it destroy? (Big Hint}

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1874, Joseph F. Glidden
Bonus Q: Cowboys because it meant that a lot of them had no need to go all across the plains

30
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Self-governing windmill invented. What homesteader problem did this fix?

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1874, lack of water

31
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Custer leads expedition to Black Hills

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1874

32
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Great Sioux War begins

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1876

33
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Battle of Little Bighorn
Month+ 2 days
How many soldiers on each side?

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June 25-26 1876
Custer’s 210 against 2000? warriors

34
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Exoduster Movement

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1879

35
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End of Great Sioux War

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1881

36
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OK Corral; how many cowboys died?

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October 1881. 3 cowboys died

37
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Silly Billy tracked down and shot by Pat Garrett after escaping jail

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1881

38
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All Plains Indians relocated onto reservations

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1885

39
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Buffalo numbers dropped from 13 million to 200

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1840-1885

40
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William Cody killed about 4280 buffalo

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1867-68

41
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Dawes Act

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1887

42
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Great Die-up + end of Open Range

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1886-87

43
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Wounded Knee Massacre, including 2 key points+ casualties

A

1890
Ghost Dance
Accidental gunshot
250 Sioux killed, 25 white soldiers

44
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“Permanent” Indian Frontier closed

A

1890

45
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Ella Watson and Jim Averill lynched

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1889 (date not in revision guide…)

46
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Johnson County War

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1892

47
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Biggest Oklahoma Land Rush (Cherokee Strip). How many acres opened up for settlement?

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1893
8 million acres

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