Dates

• Louisiana Purchase

  1803
• Indian Removal Act


  1830
• Joseph Smith published the Book of Mormon


  1830
• The Mormons moved to Kirtland, Ohio

  1831
• The Permanent Indian Frontier was established


  1834
• Economic Crisis


  1837
• The Mormons moved to Missouri


  1837
• John Deere developed a heavy duty steel plough (sodbuster)


  1837
• Trail of Tears


  1838
• The Mormons moved to Nauvoo, Illinois


  1838
• Travelling the Plains had become a fashionable thing to do

  1840
• Year of the Great Emigration


  1843
• Nauvoo was large and prosperous


  1844
• Joseph Smith introduced polygamy to the Mormons


  1844
• Joseph Smith was shot


  June 1844
• Manifest Destiny


  1845
• Rest stop in Iowa built for the Mormons

  February 1846
• Brigham Young reached the Missouri River

  June 1846
• Brigham Young selected a group to set out for the Great Salt Lake

  April 1847
• The pioneer group finally reached the Great Salt Lake


  July 1847
• Brigham Young became president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints


  1847
• Discovery of gold in Sacramento Valley


  1848
• The California Gold Rush


  1849
• 55,000 people per year went West

  1850
• The city was formally organised as the city of the Great Salt Lake


  January 1851
• Indian Appropriations Act

  1851
• The Gregory Load


  1859
• Pike's Peak Gold Rush

  1859
• Central City had developed


  July 1859
• Homestead Act


  1862
• Turkish Red Wheat was brought from Russia

  1874
• Barbed wire was created


  1876
• Timber Culture Act


  1873
• Desert Land Act


  1877
• Missouri Compromise


  1820
• The American Anti-Slavery Society was formed in the North


  1833
• The USA gained northwest territory from the British and southwest from Mexico.


  1846
• Fugitive Slave Act


  1850
• Fort Laramie Treaty


  1851
• Harriet Beecher Stowe published her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin


  1852