AW key topic 2 dates Flashcards
when was the fort Laramie treaty signed?
1851
when was the Indian Appropriations Act signed?
1851
when was the Mormon war?
1857-58 happened due to Federal governments concern over polygamy being illegal
when was silver discovered in Aurora
1860 growing to its peak of migrants in 1864.
when was the American Civil war?
1861-1865 between the Confederate south who supported slavery and the Republican north who wanted limit or abolish slavery
when was the Homestead act?
1862 gave any one who had no taken up arms against the united states 160 acres of land on the plains for free, provided they lived on it for 5 years
when was the timber culture act?
1873 gave settler 160 more acres of free land provided they planted 40 acres of trees (later reduced to 10). it was used to try to solve the problem of a lack of wood for buildings and fuel.
when was the desert land act?
1877 gave settlers rights to buy cheaply 640 acres in areas where low rainfall was a problem
when was the pacific railroad act signed?
1862 the central pacific railroad company would begin in Sacramento and continue east across Sierra Nevada. Union pacific railroad company would build west from the Missouri river. Each company would be given 6,400 acres of land either side of the tracks for every mile built. Building was paused for the civil war but was continued in 1865. Mostly being build by chinese immigrant workers
when was ‘the year of the locust’?
1874 huge numbers of locust were a huge natural hazard as the devastated crops across the west
when were windmills invented?
1874 by Daniel Halliday being used to pump water from underground
when was the ‘sod-buster’ invented?
1837 by John Deere it was a particularly strong steel plough which could deal with tough prairie grass
when was barbed wire invented?
1874 by Joseph Glidden a cheap and effect way of preventing cattle trampling crops
when was the first train robbery?
1866 the Reno brothers stole $13,000 from the Ohio and Mississippi railroad
when was Wild Bill Hickok known?
1865-76 he made his name as a gunfighter in 1865 but was hired as marshal of Aberline in 1871. Cowboys were banned from Aberline in 1872 meaning Hickok was not needed anymore, he toured with Buffalo Bill in 1873. He then went back to drifting from city to city in 1876 where he was shot whilst gambling holding what would be later known as the ‘dead man’s band’
