American West DATES

Question 1

Permanent Indian Frontier set up

Answer 1

1834

Question 2

Oregon Trail opened

Answer 2

1836

Question 3

Great emigration on Oregon Trail

Answer 3

1843

Question 4

Donner Party

Answer 4

1846

Question 5

Mormons to Great Salt Lake

Answer 5

1846

Question 6

Gold discovered in California

Answer 6

1848

Question 7

California Gold Rush

Answer 7

1849

Question 8

1st Fort Laramie Treaty

Answer 8

1851

Question 9

Indian Appropriations Act

Answer 9

1851

Question 10

Gold discovered in Rocky Mountains

Answer 10

1858

Question 11

Gold mines opened in Colorado and Nevada

Answer 11

1859

Question 12

American Civil War starts

Answer 12

1861

Question 13

Homestead Act

Answer 13

May 1862

Question 14

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

Answer 14

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

Question 15

Pacific Railway Act+ work on what railroad?

Answer 15

1864
Transcontinental Railroad

Question 16

Sand Creek Massacre

Answer 16

1864

Question 17

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

Answer 17

1865
Slavery

Question 18

Red Cloud’s War starts

Answer 18

1866

Question 19

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

Answer 19

1866
Fort Sumner

Question 20

Fetterman’s Trap

Answer 20

1866

Question 21

Abilene becomes first cow town. Who started it?

Answer 21

1867
Joseph McCoy

Question 22

End of Red Cloud’s War

Answer 22

1868

Question 23

Grant’s Peace Policy

Answer 23

1868

Question 24

Winter Campaigns

Answer 24

1868

Question 25

2nd Fort Laramie Treaty

Answer 25

1868

Question 26

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

Answer 26

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

Question 27

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

Answer 27

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

Question 28

Timber Culture Act

Answer 28

1873
160 acres if you plant trees on 1/4

Question 29

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

Answer 29

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

Question 30

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

Answer 30

1874, lack of water

Question 31

Custer leads expedition to Black Hills

Answer 31

1874

Question 32

Great Sioux War begins

Answer 32

1876

Question 33

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

Answer 33

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

Question 34

Exoduster Movement

Answer 34

1879

Question 35

End of Great Sioux War

Answer 35

1881

Question 36

OK Corral; how many cowboys died?

Answer 36

October 1881. 3 cowboys died

Question 37

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

Answer 37

1881

Question 38

All Plains Indians relocated onto reservations

Answer 38

1885

Question 39

Buffalo numbers dropped from 13 million to 200

Answer 39

1840-1885

Question 40

William Cody killed about 4280 buffalo

Answer 40

1867-68

Question 41

Dawes Act

Answer 41

1887

Question 42

Great Die-up + end of Open Range

Answer 42

1886-87

Question 43

Wounded Knee Massacre, including 2 key points+ casualties

Answer 43

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

Question 44

“Permanent” Indian Frontier closed

Answer 44

1890

Question 45

Ella Watson and Jim Averill lynched

Answer 45

1889 (date not in revision guide…)

Question 46

Johnson County War

Answer 46

1892

Question 47

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

Answer 47

1893
8 million acres