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Flashcards by Rachel I-J, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Rachel I-J
over 10 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| 1820 | A 14 year old boy,Joseph Smith, prays for guidance from God. |
| 1827 | Joseph Smith has a visitation by an Angel called Moroni about Gold Plates. |
| 1830 | The Book of Mormon was published. |
| 1837 | Great Financial Crisis Banks collapsed and the Mormons were chased out. Smith would not lead his Mormons West. |
| 27th June 1844 | Joseph Smith dies after Polygamy "revelation". He was shot dead as he tried to escape from jail. Brigham Young was the new leader of the Mormons and chose to lead them West, to Great Salt Lake where they settled successfully. This was an important turning point for the Mormons. |
| 1847 | Arrived in Salt Lake City |
| 1848/9 | Gold Rush 1848-9 Forty-Niners! |
| 1851 | First Fort Laramie Treaty |
| 1862 | The Homestead Act. |
| 1864 | The Massacre of Sand Creek |
| 1866 | First Cattle Drives Established |
| 1868 | Second Fort Laramie Treaty |
| 1869 | The completion of the Transcontinental Railroad It cut the westward travel time from six months to one week. |
| 1876 | The Battle of the Little Bighorn. |
| 1876 | The Battle of the Little Bighorn. |
| 1887 | The end of the Open Range. |
| 1890 | The Battle of Wounded Knee and Ghost Movement. |
| 1640 | Indians started using horses to travel and fight. |
| 1890 | Indians defeated - on reservations |
| 1845 | The phrase "Manifest Destiny" was started by John O'Sullivan of the New York Times. |
| 1873 | Timber Culture Act |
| 1877 | Desert Land Act |
| 1861-1865 | Civil War |
| 1874 | Wind Pump - Daniel Halliday Barbed Wire - Joseph Gliddon Sod Buster - John Deere |
| 1865-70 | Charles Goodnight |
| 1889 | Jim Averill and Ella Watson, two homesteaders, were lynched by Cattle Barons |
| 1892 | Johnson County War |
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