Key Laws / Dates Flashcards
1
Q
1830
A
Indian Removal Act
2
Q
1830-50
A
Indian Removal (Trail of Tears)
3
Q
1834
A
Permanent Indian Frontier
4
Q
1845 - 48
A
US gains control of additional territory from Mexico and Britain
5
Q
1849
A
California Gold Rush
6
Q
1851
A
- The Indian Appropriations Act
- Fort Laramie treaty
7
Q
1859
A
Gold mines open in Colorado, Nevada and Rocky Mountains
8
Q
1861 - 65
A
American Civil War
9
Q
1861
A
Fort Wise treaty
10
Q
1862
A
- Rocky Mountains Gold Rush (Montana) using Bozeman Trail
- Little Crow’s War
11
Q
1864
A
Sand Creek Massacre
12
Q
1866 - 68
A
Red Cloud’s War
13
Q
1868
A
- ‘The Winter Campaign’
- President Grant’s ‘Peace Policy’
- Second Fort Laramie treaty
14
Q
1869
A
First Transcontinental Railroad completed
15
Q
1870
A
- Ranching begins on the plains
- Construction of Northern Pacific Railroad begins
16
Q
1871
A
Indian Appropriations Act
17
Q
1874
A
Gold discovered in the Black Hills
18
Q
1875
A
Destruction of southern buffalo herd completed
19
Q
1876-77
A
The Great Sioux War
20
Q
1876
A
The Battle of the Little Big Horn
21
Q
1883
A
Buffalo are ‘extinct’
22
Q
1885
A
All Plains Indians are resettled on reservations
23
Q
1887
A
Dawes Act
24
Q
1889 - 90
A
Ghost Dance movement
