American West

• Gold rush


  1849
• 1852


  Chinese famine
• Homestead Act


  1862
• Timber Culture Act


  1873
• Dessert Land 


  1877
• Pacific Railroad Act


  1862
• Barbed wire


  1874
• Sulkyplow


  1875
• Exoduster movement


  1879
• Removal act


  1830

  forced 46 000 indians to move away
• Intercourse act


  1834
• Indians Apropriation act


  1851
• First Fort laramie


  1851
• 1860-.............. cattle

  1880-.............. cattle

  Gold discovered in montanta

  130,000

  4.5m

  1862
• Little Crows war


  1862
• 1851


  Indians gave up 24 acres for 1.4m
• Litttle crows war


  50,000 plains

  6000 whites

  in 1851 PI gave up 24m acres for 1.4m+ 8000 annuties

  -however debt of 200000

  -Reservation had poor soil

  -the system was corrupted( agency stores)

  1858- dakato sioux made t sign over half reservation for money for food

  1862- Crops failed and gov payed late

  leading to Little crow raiding agency stores and burning it etc..

  38 men executed

  little crow shot 1863
• Sand Creek masscre


  Treaty of fort wise 1861

  -Arapho and cheyene agreed to move ti reservatins but dog soldiers didnt

  -after 3 years of attacks and raids Black kettle and gov tried to reach an agreement.

  -john evans determined to kill and destroy

  -appointed chinvington

  -29th nov 1864 chivington led 700 and raided camp 1000 warriors(not acc true)

  -Killed 130 men

  due to tensions of civil war in 1865 sent to bigger reservations and generous payments

  -after war ended sent back to reservation half the size
• 1865 a cow worth 40 in the north but in the south inly worth

  5
• 5 million ............ in texas


  cows
• 1867 branch line of Railroad reached


  abilene
• 1870s


  beef bonanza
• greater demand for better quality meat

  1887
• Johnson county war


  1892
• great die up

  1886-7