Dates

Question 1

Permanent Indian frontier set up

Answer 1

1834

Question 2

The Oregon trail opened

Answer 2

1836

Question 3

The “great emigration” on the Oregon trail

Answer 3

1843

Question 4

Donner party head west but meet with death and disaster

Answer 4

1846

Question 5

Mormons travel to the great salt lake

Answer 5

1846

Question 6

Gold discovered in California

Answer 6

1848

Question 7

California gold rush

Answer 7

1849

Question 8

Fort Laramie treaty

Answer 8

1851

Question 9

The Indian appropriations act

Answer 9

1851

Question 10

Gold discovered in Rocky Mountains

Answer 10

1858-9

Question 11

Gold mines opened in Colorado and Nevada

Answer 11

1859

Question 12

The American civil war

Answer 12

1861-5

Question 13

Little crows war

Answer 13

1862

Question 14

Homestead act

Answer 14

1862

Question 15

Pacific railway act passed and work began on transcontinental railway

Answer 15

1864

Question 16

Sand creek massacre

Answer 16

1864

Question 17

Slavery abolished in the USA

Answer 17

1865

Question 18

Goodnight and loving reach fort sumner with a herd of cattle

Answer 18

1866

Question 19

Red clouds war

Answer 19

1866-68

Question 20

Abilene becomes first cow town

Answer 20

1867

Question 21

President grants peace policy

Answer 21

1868

Question 22

Second fort laramie treaty

Answer 22

1868

Question 23

First transcontinental railroad completed

Answer 23

1869

Question 24

Cattle ranching begins on the plains,leading to the “open range”

Answer 24

1870

Question 25

Timber culture act

Answer 25

1873

Question 26

Barbed wire begins to be mass produced

Answer 26

1874

Question 27

Wind powered water pump introduced

Answer 27

1874

Question 28

Custer leads expedition to black hills

Answer 28

1874

Question 29

The great Sioux war

Answer 29

1876-81

Question 30

The battle of little big horn

Answer 30

1876

Question 31

Exoduster movement

Answer 31

1879

Question 32

The ok corral

Answer 32

1881

Question 33

All plains Indians are resettled onto reservations

Answer 33

1885

Question 34

Severe winter leads to the end of the open range

Answer 34

1886-7

Question 35

Dawes act

Answer 35

1887

Question 36

Wounded knee massacre

Answer 36

1890

Question 37

The us government closes frontier

Answer 37

1899

Question 38

Johnson county war

Answer 38

1892

Question 39

Oklahoma land rush

Answer 39

1893