Timeline

Question 1

Skirmishes against white settlers:

Answer 1

1800-15

Question 2

Defeat of the Shawnees:

Answer 2

1811

Question 3

Tecumseh attempts to form a Confederation of Native American tribes:

Answer 3

1811

Question 4

Some Native American tribes fight on the side of the British:

Answer 4

1812

Question 5

Treaty of Ghent:
Indians lose British as allies

Answer 5

1814

Question 6

First Seminole War:

Answer 6

1816-19

Question 7

Indian Removal Act:

Answer 7

1830

Question 8

Trail of Tears:

Answer 8

1838

Question 9

First Indian Appropriation Act:

Answer 9

1851

Question 10

First Fort Laramie Treaty:

Answer 10

1851

Question 11

The Plains Wars:

Answer 11

1862-7

Question 12

Sioux war breaks out in Minnesota:

Answer 12

1862

Question 13

Massacre at Sand Creek:

Answer 13

1864

Question 14

Policy of small reservations adopted:

Answer 14

1867-8

Question 15

Second Indian Appropriation Act:

Answer 15

1871

Question 16

Discovery of silver in Comstock Lode, Nevada:

Answer 16

1873

Question 17

Discovery of gold in Dakota leads to Black Hills Gold Rush:

Answer 17

1874

Question 18

Great Sioux War:

Answer 18

1876

Question 19

Battle of Little Big Horn:

Answer 19

1876

Question 20

Carlisle School for Indians established in Pennsylvania:

Answer 20

1879

Question 21

Fewer than 200 Buffalo left in the west:

Answer 21

1883

Question 22

US Government defines Native American as wards:

Answer 22

1884

Question 23

Dawes Severalty Act:

Answer 23

1887

Question 24

Massacre at Wounded Knee:

Answer 24

1890