American West Dates

Question 1

US won California from Mexico

Answer 1

1834

Question 2

Completion of the transcontinental railroad

Answer 2

1869

Question 3

Homestead Act

Answer 3

1862

Question 4

Civil War

Answer 4

1862-1865

Question 5

Timber Culture Act

Answer 5

1873

Question 6

California gold rush

Answer 6

1849

Question 7

Cattle drives

Answer 7

1870s

Question 8

Ranching on the open range

Answer 8

1880s

Question 9

Fort Laramie Treaty 1

Answer 9

1851

Question 10

Dawes Act

Answer 10

1889

Question 11

Permanent Indian frontier

Answer 11

1834

Question 12

Destruction of the buffalo herds

Answer 12

1870s

Question 13

Good discovered in Rocky Mountains

Answer 13

1862

Question 14

Sand Creek Massacre

Answer 14

1864

Question 15

Ghost Dance

Answer 15

1889

Question 16

Wounded Knee Massacre

Answer 16

1889

Question 17

Custer finds good in Black Hills

Answer 17

1873

Question 18

Economics depression and crops failing in eastern states

Answer 18

1830s and 1840s

Question 19

Belief in manifest destiny

Answer 19

1860s-1880s

Question 20

Fort Laramie Treaty 2

Answer 20

1868

Question 21

Battle of the Little Bighorn

Answer 21

1876

Question 22

Little Crows War

Answer 22

1862

Question 23

Reservation educating policy

Answer 23

1880s-1890s

Question 24

Government moving Indians to reservations on Great Plains

Answer 24

1825

Question 25

Bureau of Indian affairs set up

Answer 25

1832

Question 26

Permanent Indian frontier. The ‘piff line’

Answer 26

1834

Question 27

Completion of removal of eastern Indians onto reservations

Answer 27

1838

Question 28

Mormons began their move to Salt Lake City

Answer 28

1846

Question 29

Mormons in Kirtland

Answer 29

1831-1837

Question 30

Mormons in Missouri

Answer 30

1837-1838

Question 31

Mormons in Nauvoo

Answer 31

1839-1846

Question 32

American-Mexican War: California and New Mexico become part of US

Answer 32

1846

Question 33

Gold discovered in California

Answer 33

1848

Question 34

Settlers began moving into Kansas and Nebraska

Answer 34

1854

Question 35

Cheyenne and Arapaho began serious attacks on minors and travellers.

Answer 35

1861

Question 36

Cheyenne wars began

Answer 36

1863

Question 37

Red Clouds War began

Answer 37

1865

Question 38

Last free Sioux under Crazy Horse surrendered

Answer 38

1877

Question 39

All Indian nations on reservations

Answer 39

1885

Question 40

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Answer 40

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