Dates

Question 1

1851

Answer 1

Fort Laramie Treaty

Question 2

1862

Answer 2

Homestead Act

Question 3

1868

Answer 3

2nd Fort Laramie Treaty

Question 4

1869

Answer 4

Transcontinental railroad completed

Question 5

1876

Answer 5

Battle of the little big horn

Question 6

1890

Answer 6

Wounded knee

Question 7

1823

Answer 7

Jed smith found a route through the rockies

Question 8

1840

Answer 8

The mountain men had moved on as most of the beavers had been wiped out

Question 9

1840’s

Answer 9

Thousands moved west to Oregon and california

Question 10

1848

Answer 10

Gold was discovered in California

Question 11

1820-1831

Answer 11

Joseph smith and the start of the Mormon movement

Question 12

1827

Answer 12

An angle told Joseph smith where the book was to be found. He claimed to dig on a hill side near manchester

Question 13

1838

Answer 13

The Mormons lest missouri

Question 14

1873

Answer 14

The timber culture act -This gave settlers a further 160 acres of free land provided they planted 40 acres with trees

Question 15

1877

Answer 15

The desert land act - This gave settlers the rights to buy 640 acres cheaply in areas where lack of rainfall was a problem.

Question 16

1879

Answer 16

The peak of the migration for ex-slaves from southern states moving to Kansas

Question 17

1874

Answer 17

1, Joseph Glidden invented barbed wire

2, Self governing windmill

Question 18

1860-1865

Answer 18

American civil war

Question 19

1866

Answer 19

Early cattle drive

Question 20

1875

Answer 20

Development of ranching on the plains

Question 21

1825

Answer 21

Start of the removals of eastern Indian nations to reservations on the great plains

Question 22

1832

Answer 22

Bureau of Indian affairs set up

Question 23

1834

Answer 23

The great plains were set aside as Indian country, the permanent Indian frontier