key dates

Question 1

indian removal act

Answer 1

1830

Question 2

economic depression in the east

Answer 2

1837

Question 3

discovery of gold in california

Answer 3

jan 1848

Question 4

gold rush

Answer 4

1849

Question 5

donner party

Answer 5

1846

Question 6

government opened up kansas and nebraska for settlement

Answer 6

1854

Question 7

1st fort laramie treaty

Answer 7

1851

Question 8

indian appropriations act

Answer 8

1851

Question 9

fort laramie yearly payments reduced from 50yrs to 10

Answer 9

1852

Question 10

california became a state & government was introduced

Answer 10

1850

Question 11

first national law regulating mining claims

Answer 11

1866

Question 12

vigilance committee formed

Answer 12

1851

Question 13

civil war

Answer 13

1861 - 1865

Question 14

confederate states of america formed

Answer 14

1860

Question 15

homestead act

Answer 15

1862

Question 16

pacific railroad act

Answer 16

1862

Question 17

first transcontinental railroad complete

Answer 17

1869

Question 18

sodbuster (steel plough)

Answer 18

1868

Question 19

barbed wire

Answer 19

1874

Question 20

turkey red wheat brought over from russia

Answer 20

1874

Question 21

timber culture act

Answer 21

1873

Question 22

goodnight loving trail

Answer 22

1866

Question 23

john illif set up open range ranching in wyoming

Answer 23

1867

Question 24

illif won gov. contract to supply beef to sioux reservation

Answer 24

1868

Question 25

abilene cow town built up

Answer 25

1867