American West - Timeline

Question	Answer
Early 1800s	Mountain Men trapping beavers
1820	Texas Rangers set up to uphold the law
1830	Church of the Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints (the Mormons) founded
1840	Estimated 13 million buffalo on the Plains
1840s	First pioneers went West
1846	The Mormons leave Nauvoo
1847	Mormons arrive at the Great Salt Lake and build Salt Lake City
1848	Gold discovered in California
1849	The first miners arrive in California - the '49ers
1850	Pinkerton Detective Agency set up to prevent stagecoach robberies
1851	The First Fort Laramie Treaty signed
1860s	Homesteaders begin settling on the Plains
1862	Little Crow's War + Homestead Act
1861-65	American Civil War
1862-69	Railroad constructed
1864	Sand Creek Massacre
1865-68	Red Cloud's War
1866	Charles Goodnight and Oliver Loving establish the Goodnight-Loving trail
1867	Joseph McCoy creates cowtown of Abilene
1868	The Second Fort Laramie Treaty signed
1870s	Hunters begin killing buffalo / Ranchers begin to move cattle onto Plains
1873	Timber and Culture Act
1874	Barbed ware invented by Joseph Glidden
1876-77	Great Sioux War
1876	Battle of Little Bighorn / US adopts Total Warfare against Indians after defeat
1883	Bad drought killed many cattle
1885	Just 200 buffalo left
1886	Bad winter killed thousands of cattle
1890	Wovoka starts the Ghost Dance movement + Massacre at Wounded Knee
1892	Johnson County War
1887	Lawes General Allotment Act
1845	Manifest Destiny put up as an idea for the first time
1880s	Wind pumps and machinery widely used on the plains

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