Post date: Dec 18, 2012 7:7:45 PM
Timeline in the Settlement of the West
Significant events in the settlement of the West:
1700-1800: New Indian peoples move unto Great Plains.
1849: California Gold Rush.
1858: Pikes Peak Gold Rush.
1859: Nevada Comstock Lode discovered.
1862: Homestead Act.
1864: Sand Creek Massacre. Nevada admitted to Union.
1867: National Grange organized.
1876: Battle of the Little Bighorn. Colorado admitted to the Union.
1877: Nez Perce Indian War.
1881: Helen Hunt Jackson publishes A Century of Dishonor.
1884: Federal Government outlaws Indian Sun Dance.
1885-1890: Local chapters of Farmers' Alliance formed.
1887: Dawes Severalty Act.
1889: Oklahoma opened to settlement.
1889-1890: North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Washington, Idaho and Wyoming admitted to Union.
1890: Census Bureau declares frontier line ended. Emergence of People's Party (Populists). Battle of Wounded Knee.
1892: Populist Party candidate James B. Weaver polls more than 1 million votes in presidential election.
1893: Frederick Jackson Turner publishes "The Significance of the Frontier in American History."
1894: "Coxey's Army" marches on Washington. Pullman Strike.
1896: Utah admitted to Union. McKinley defeats Bryan for presidency.
1897: Dingley Tariff Act.
1900: Gold Standard Act.
1907: Oklahoma admitted to Union.
1924: Indians granted US citizenship.
1934: Indian Reorganization Act.
The following essay comes from The American Pageant AP Edition, 13th ed. Houghton Mifflin. pp: 625