American west

• Indian removal act 


  American indians moved west of the Mississippi River (1830)
• Indian trade and inter course act 


  Permanent Indian frontier established (1834)
• Oregon trail opened 


  A trail running from east America to west America (Oregon) (1836)
• US gained new territories in the west

  1840s
• The dinner party migration ends in disaster 


  Short cut, stuck in Winter, lots died, some scaved (1840s)
• the mormons successfully migrate to Utah 


  Understands donner party’s mistakes, Salt Lake City(1846)
• The gold rush 


  Gold found in California, people want to migrate west (1849)
• Indian appropriations act (1)


  Western tribes given funding to move init reservations (1851)
• Fort laramie treaty (1)

  Plains Indians allow whites to travel through reservations for $50,000 yearly payments from the government (1851)
• American civil war


  1861-1865
• Homestead act 


  Encouraged white settlers to move west -160 acres of land, after 5 years of working and living they can buy it for $30. (1862)
• Pacific railroad act 


  Two railroad companies would start building a track one from west and other from each and meet in the middle(1862)
• little crows war (1862)

  Little crow moved his tribe onto a reservation, struggled to farm, bad harvest Caused them to starve, white reservation agent refused to give them food and cheated them out Of money. Little crow attacked settlers/ killed 600 and stole food. Us army found little crow, killed him and executed 38 Sioux. Remaining soo us were isolated onto another reservation, thousands died.
• Sand creek massacre(1864)

  black kettle Agrees to live his cheyenne to a reservation because gold has been found on their land. Harvest was bad began to steal food. You he Cheyenne refused to move onto the reservation and continued to attack white settlers. Colonel Chivington led a raid on black kettles camp at sand creek. Over 150 men, women and children were killed. Black kettle escaped. He spreader the news of the massacre->increased conflict and anger. The us government condemned chivington and promised compensation but it never came.
• Slavery abolished 


  1865
• Goodnight -loving trail established 


  Used to move Texas longhorn (cattle) from Texas to Colorado so they could be sold (1866)
• Abilene, kansas


  The first cow town (1867)
• 2nd fort Laramie treaty 


  Sioux moved to an even smaller reservation and we’re promised food and medicine by the us government(1868)
• First transcontinental railroad created 


  1869
• start of the open range

  ranching on the plains (1870)
• Indians appropriations act (2)


  Independent tribes/nations no longer recognised (1871)
• Timber culture act 


  Homesteaders could claim another 160 acres of land if they agreed to plant trees on a quater of it. (1873)
• Barbed wire 


  Mass production of it (1874)
• exoduster movement 


  ex-slaves Moving west for land(1879)
• extermination of the buffalo

  1880s
• The great die up- end of the open range 


  1886-1887
• Dawes act 


  End of the reservation system (1887)