American West Key Dates

Question 1

Permanent indian frontier set up

Answer 1

1834

Question 2

first settlers arrive in oregon encouraged by government legislation

Answer 2

1843

Question 3

Mormon persecution in Nauvoo

Answer 3

1844

Question 4

donner party head west but meet with disaster and desth

Mormons travel to the great salt lake haven been driven out of nauvoo

Answer 4

1846

Question 5

gold discovered in california

Answer 5

1848

Question 6

first homesteaders move to the plains

Answer 6

1850s

Question 7

fort laramie treaty ( 1 )

Answer 7

1851

Question 8

gold discovered in the pikes peak region of the rocky mountains

Answer 8

1858 - 59

Question 9

gold mines opened in colorado and nevada

Answer 9

1859

Question 10

start of the american civil war between north and south america

Answer 10

1861

Question 11

Homestead act
Little crows war
Pacific railway act passed and work begins on the transcontinental railway

Answer 11

1862

Question 12

sand creek massacre

Answer 12

1864

Question 13

end of american civil war

slavery abolished in the us

Answer 13

1865

Question 14

group of us army soldiers wiped out at fettermans trap by plains indians
red clouds war on the us govt in their attempt to build forts in montana
goodnight and loving reach for sumner with 1700 cattle

Answer 14

1866

Question 15

medicine lodge creek
abilene becomes first cown town
“beef bonanza”

Answer 15

1867

Question 16

“the winter campaign”

Fort laramie treaty ( 2 )

Answer 16

1868

Question 17

railroad completed despite opposition from some americans

Answer 17

1869

Question 18

cattle ranching begins on the plains which led to the “open range”

Answer 18

1870

Question 19

timber and culture act

Answer 19

1873

Question 20

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

Answer 20

1874

Question 21

the great sioux war begins between the us army and the sioux indians
battle of little bighorn

Answer 21

1876

Question 22

sitting bull and followers surrender to the american government

Answer 22

1881

Question 23

all plains indians are resettled on to reservations northern herd of buffalo is completely destroyed

Answer 23

1885

Question 24

severe winter leads to smaller ranches with barbed fences and wind pumps that eventually lead to the end of the cowboy era

Answer 24

1886

Question 25

dawes act

Answer 25

1887

Question 26

battle of wounded knee

us govt closes frontier in which the plains indians had lost their land

Answer 26

1890

Question 27

johnson county war

Answer 27

1892