Important dates

Question 1

Columbus arrives in America

Answer 1

1492

Question 2

Sioux forced onto plains from Great Lakes region

Answer 2

1700s

Question 3

American Declaration of Independence

Answer 3

1776

Question 4

Book of Mormon published

Answer 4

1830

Question 5

First Mormon temple built, Kirkland, Ohio

Answer 5

1833

Question 6

Mormons settle in Salt Lake Valley

Answer 6

1847

Question 7

Discovery of gold in California by James Marshall

Answer 7

1848

Question 8

California gold rush

Answer 8

1849

Question 9

US Civil War

Answer 9

1861-1865

Question 10

The Homestead Act

Answer 10

1862

Question 11

Little Crow’s War

Answer 11

1862

Question 12

Sand Creek Massacre

Answer 12

29th November 1864

Question 13

Red Cloud’s War

Answer 13

1866-1868

Question 14

Medicine Lodge Treaty

Answer 14

1867

Question 15

First transcontinental railroad completed

Answer 15

1869

Question 16

Timber culture act

Answer 16

1873

Question 17

Introduction of barbed wire

Answer 17

1874

Question 18

Battle of little Bighorn

Answer 18

25-26 June 1876

Question 19

Sioux Campaign

Answer 19

1876-1877

Question 20

Desert Land Act

Answer 20

1877

Question 21

Shootout at the OK Corral

Answer 21

1881

Question 22

Terrible winter which killed many cattle

Answer 22

1886-1887

Question 23

Dawes Act

Answer 23

1887

Question 24

Frontier declared closed by US Census Bureau

Answer 24

1890

Question 25

Massacre at wounded knee

Answer 25

29th Dec 1890

Question 26

Johnson County War

Answer 26

1892