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Flashcards by James Jolliffe, updated more than 1 year ago
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Copied by James Jolliffe
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| Question | Answer |
| Early 1800s | Mountain Men trapping beavers |
| 1820 | Texas Rangers set up to uphold the law |
| 1830 | Church of the Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints (the Mormons) founded |
| 1840 | Estimated 13 million buffalo on the Plains |
| 1840s | First pioneers went West |
| 1846 | The Mormons leave Nauvoo |
| 1847 | Mormons arrive at the Great Salt Lake and build Salt Lake City |
| 1848 | Gold discovered in California |
| 1849 | The first miners arrive in California - the '49ers |
| 1850 | Pinkerton Detective Agency set up to prevent stagecoach robberies |
| 1851 | The First Fort Laramie Treaty signed |
| 1860s | Homesteaders begin settling on the Plains |
| 1862 | Little Crow's War + Homestead Act |
| 1861-65 | American Civil War |
| 1862-69 | Railroad constructed |
| 1864 | Sand Creek Massacre |
| 1865-68 | Red Cloud's War |
| 1866 | Charles Goodnight and Oliver Loving establish the Goodnight-Loving trail |
| 1867 | Joseph McCoy creates cowtown of Abilene |
| 1868 | The Second Fort Laramie Treaty signed |
| 1870s | Hunters begin killing buffalo / Ranchers begin to move cattle onto Plains |
| 1873 | Timber and Culture Act |
| 1874 | Barbed ware invented by Joseph Glidden |
| 1876-77 | Great Sioux War |
| 1876 | Battle of Little Bighorn / US adopts Total Warfare against Indians after defeat |
| 1883 | Bad drought killed many cattle |
| 1885 | Just 200 buffalo left |
| 1886 | Bad winter killed thousands of cattle |
| 1890 | Wovoka starts the Ghost Dance movement + Massacre at Wounded Knee |
| 1892 | Johnson County War |
| 1887 | Lawes General Allotment Act |
| 1845 | Manifest Destiny put up as an idea for the first time |
| 1880s | Wind pumps and machinery widely used on the plains |
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