dates

Question 1

when was the indian removal act and what did it do?

Answer 1

1830, forced them out of the east, west of the mississippi river

Question 2

when was the economic crash in the east? how high did it make unemployment?

Answer 2

1837

25%

Question 3

when and what was the indian trade and intercourse act?

Answer 3

1834
set out a frontier between the usa and indian territory
stopped whites settling on indian land, and stopped sale of alcohol or guns by white traders
guarded

Question 4

when did the usa win the mexico america war and gain california?

Answer 4

1848

Question 5

in what year did california’s population reach 300,000?

Answer 5

1855

Question 6

what year was the first treaty of fort laramie?

Answer 6

1851

Question 7

what did the first treaty of fort laramie involve?

Answer 7

• made to resolve problems between indians and settlers
• gvt promised to protect indians from whites
• tribes would receive payment of $50,000 a year if they kept terms
• tribes would allow railroad building + workers on their land
• end to fighting between tribes

Question 8

what was the main problem during the signing of the first treaty of fort laramie?

Answer 8

• the tribes couldn’t send just one chief as their society didn’t work that way
• some tribes didn’t attend
• many didn’t understand what they were signing to
• separating each tribe with boundaries was not understood as society didn’t work like that

Question 9

when was the san francisco crime wave?

Answer 9

1851

Question 10

what caused the san francisco crime wave?

Answer 10

poverty and anger because there was no gold left
huge increase in chinese migrants
racial tensions and unemployment

Question 11

when was the chinese famine?

how many chinese migrants moved to the usa ?

Answer 11

1852

increased from 2000 in 1851 to 20,000 in 1852

Question 12

when was the american civil war? who won?

Answer 12

1861-1865

the union defeated the confederacy

Question 13

when was the homestead act passed?

Answer 13

1861

Question 14

what were the main points of the homestead act?

Answer 14

160 acre plots of land
cost $10 to apply for a plot
anyone could apply as long as they were head of a family or single and over 12
after 5 years if they had planted 5acres of crops and built a house they could ‘prove up’ and buy it for $30

Question 15

by which year was 6 million acres of land sold?

Answer 15

1876

Question 16

how much land was actually proved up?

Answer 16

only 13 million acres by 1884

Question 17

when was the pacific railroad act passed?

Answer 17

1862

Question 18

why was the pacific railroad act passed at this time?

Answer 18

the southern states left the union in 1861 so the northern states selected a northern route that went from california to nebraska

Question 19

what did the pacific railroad act do to native americans?

Answer 19

extinguished any rights they had along the route

increased settlement on their lands

Question 20

how much land did the railroad companies sell?

Answer 20

200 million acres by 1880

Question 21

what are 5 consequences of the pacific railroad act?

Answer 21

increased immigration from europe
connected eastern and western territories
reduced number of buffalo
enabled growth of the cattle industry (abilene)
allowed settlers to buy products from industrial cities

Question 22

what were the names of the companies who built the railroad?

Answer 22

union pacific

central pacific

Question 23

when was the self governing windmill invented?

what did it do?

Answer 23

1854

pumped water out of the ground

Question 24

when was barbed wire invented?

Answer 24

1874 but not widely used until after 1880

Question 25

when was the timber culture act ?

Answer 25

1873

Question 26

when was the goodnight loving trail established?

Answer 26

1866

Question 27

when was abilene set up? how many used it?

Answer 27

successful by 1867

35,000 cows

Question 28

how was abilene reached?

Answer 28

the chisholm trail

Question 29

when did john illif realise cattle could be ranched on the plains?

Answer 29

1870

Question 30

when was the beef bonanza?

Answer 30

1870

Question 31

when was the great die up?

Answer 31

1886-87