Dates Flashcards
Ghost dance movement
1889
Barbed wire
1874
Turkey red wheat
1874
American government owned America
1848
Economic depression
1837
Collapse of Mormon bank
1837
Joseph smiths vision
1823
Manifest destiny “Americas progress” book by John Gast
1872
California becomes state
1850
Donner party case
1846-1847
Harsh winter
1886
Mormon church set up
1830
mormon migration to slc
1846-1847
gold rush California
1849
Railroad
1862-1869
Brigham Young death
1877
Joseph smith death
1844
Utah becomes a state
1896
Polygamy abolished
1890
Texas ranchers
1850-1865
Goodnight loving trail
1866
Civil war ends
1865
Abilene set up as cowtown
1867
Open range farming
1875-1885
Enclosed farming
1880-1890
Homestead act
1862
Timber and culture act
1873
Desert land act
1877
6m more acres released
1893
Bald knobbers
1883
OK corral
1881
Johnson county war
1892
Lincoln county war
1878
1st Fort Laramie treaty
1851
Sand creek massacre
1864
Battle of Little Bighorn
1876
2nd fort Laramie treaty
1868
Red clouds war
1867
Gold discovered in the black hills
1874
Dawes act
1887
Wounded knee massacre
1890
Mormons formed their holy city in nauvoo
1839
Mormons went to Missouri
1837
Fence cutting
1880s
Butch Cassidy robbed a bank
1850
Kirtland became Mormon holy city
1831
Gold plates translated
1827
Claim jumping
1849
Wind pump
1854
Moved out of kirtland
1846
Abilene banned Cowboys
1872
Drought and overgrazing
1883
Racial attacks in Wyoming
1885
Telegraph lines
1861
Nebraska becomes a state
1867
Billy the kid prison escape
1881
Danites
1847
Oklahoma land rush
1889
Oregon trail
1843
Medicine lodge creek treaty
1867