American West

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Permanent Indian Frontier

Back 1

1834

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Donner party head west

Back 2

1846

Front 3

Mormons head west/arrive

Back 3

1846-47

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Gold discovered in California

Back 4

1848

Front 5

California gold rush

Back 5

1849

Front 6

1st Fort Laramie Treaty

Back 6

1851

Front 7

Indians appropriation act 1

Back 7

1851

Front 8

Gold found in Colorado and Nevada

Back 8

1859

Front 9

Civil War start/end

Back 9

1861-65

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Homestead Act

Back 10

1862

Front 11

Pacific Railroad Act

Back 11

1862

Front 12

Little Crows War

Back 12

1862

Front 13

Sand Creek Massacre

Back 13

1864

Front 14

Goodnight Loving Trail

Back 14

1866

Front 15

Red cloud war

Back 15

1866-68

Front 16

Fettermans Trap

Back 16

1866

Front 17

Abilene

Back 17

1867

Front 18

2nd Fort Laramie Treaty

Back 18

1868

Front 19

Grants Peace Policy

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1868

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1st Transcontinental railway complete

Back 20

1869

Front 21

Cattle Ranching on plains began

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1870

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Indian Appropriation Act 2

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1871

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Timber Culture Act

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1873

Front 24

Barbed wire mass produced

Back 24

1874

Front 25

Wind power water pump

Back 25

1873

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Exoduster Movement

Back 26

1879

Front 27

OK Corral

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1881

Front 28

Battle of Little Big Horn

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1876

Front 29

Severe winter lasting year

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1886

Front 30

Dawns Act

Back 30

1887

Front 31

Wounded Knee Massacre

Back 31

1890

Front 32

Frontier closed

Back 32

1890

Front 33

Johnson county war

Back 33

1892

Front 34

Oklahoma land rush

Back 34

1893