American west key dates 0.0 / 5 ? HistoryThe American West 1840-1895GCSEOther Created by: bilsonCreated on: 04-03-18 14:36 1834 Permanent Indian Frontier 1 of 30 1836 Oregon trail opens 2 of 30 1849 California Gold rush 3 of 30 1857-8 Mormon war Mountain Meadow Massacre 4 of 30 1848 Gold discovered in California 5 of 30 1858-9 Gold discovered in Rocky Mountains 6 of 30 1864 Sand Creek Massacre, work starts on Transcontinental Railroad 7 of 30 1862 Homestead Act, Little Crows war 8 of 30 1851 1st Fort Laramie Treaty, Indian Appropriation Act 9 of 30 1830 Indian Removal Act 10 of 30 1866 Goodnight-Loving drive cattle 11 of 30 1861-5 American Civil War, Slavery ends in the USA 12 of 30 1846-7 Mormons head to the great Salt lake 13 of 30 1885 200 Buffalo, all plains Indians resettled on reservations 14 of 30 1867 McCoy sets up Abilene 15 of 30 1869 First Transcontinental Railroad completed 16 of 30 1868 2nd Fort Laramie set up Great Sioux Reservation, Grants peace policy 17 of 30 1866-8 Red Clouds War 18 of 30 1870 Cattle ranching begins on the plains, Open Range 19 of 30 1874 Gold in the Black hills, Barbed wire and wind pump invented 20 of 30 1876 Battle of the Little Big Horn 21 of 30 1893 Oklahoma Land Rush 22 of 30 1879 Exoduster movement 23 of 30 1881 The OK Corral 24 of 30 1886-7 The big die up 25 of 30 1873 Timbre Culture Act 26 of 30 1892 Johnson County War 27 of 30 1890 0Massacre at wounded Knee( ghost dance), US gov. closes frontier 28 of 30 1887 Dawes General Allotment act ( split reservations into plots) 29 of 30 1876-81 Great Sioux War 30 of 30
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