19th & 20th Century American West and New South 2

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Event Date:	Event Title:	Event Description:
01/24/1848	CA gold rush	The California Gold Rush VideoJames Marshall discovers gold at Sutter's Mill in Northern CA. This will lead to a flood of newcomers in the west.
12/30/1859	Gold discovery at Pike's Peak in Colorado	What you need to know about Pikes peak goldDiscovery of gold brought 100,000 +/- settlers into Colorado.
12/31/1862	Homestead Act of 1862	Encouraged farmng on the Great Plains by offering 160 acres of public land free to any family that settled on it for a period of five years.
12/30/1864	Nevada statehood	Comstock lode helps lead to Nevada statehood
01/01/1865	250,00 Native Americans lived in the West
04/29/1868	Treaty of Fort Laramie 1868	Treaty of Fort Laramie 1868
12/31/1868	National Grange of Patrons of Husbandry	Oliver H. Kelly established this organization as a social and educational organization for farmers and their families - later turned to protect members against middlemen/trusts/railroads
12/31/1874	Invention of Barbed Wire	Joseph Glidden invented the bared wire in 1874
12/30/1877	Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce "I will fight no more forever"	Chief JosephFinal surrender of the Nez Perce as they attempted to avoid capture and sent to a reservation. Nez Perce originally located in Wallowa valley of Oregon and Idaho.
01/01/1881	A century of Disorder	Helen Hunt Jackson's book. It created awareness for the awareness to the injustices to the INdians.
05/08/1882	Chinese Exclusion Act	Prohibited further immigration by Chinese laborers. It was the 1st major act of Congress to prohibit immigration based on race.
12/31/1885	Winter Blizzard and drought killed off 90 percent of cattle.	This was one of the factors that closed down the cattle frontier in the 1880s.
12/31/1887	Dawes Act of 1887	designed to break up tribal organizations, which many felt kept the Native Americans from becoming "civilized" and law-abiding citizens. the Dawes Act divided tribal lands into plots of 160 acres or less. U.S. citizenship was grantedto those who stayed on the land for 25 years and "adoptd the habits of civilized life".
12/31/1889	Oklahoma territory open for settlement
01/19/1890	Ocala Platform	The National Alliance of organized Farmers met in Ocala, Florida, to address the problems of rural America. They created a platform that supported direct elkection of U.S. senators, lowering tariff taxes, a graduated income tax, and a new banking system regulated by the federal government.
01/01/1896	Plessy vs. Ferguson	In this case, the Supreme Court upholds a Louisiana law requiring "separate but equal acommodations" for whites and black passengers on railroads.
06/18/1934	Indian Reorganization Act of 1934	Indian Reorganization Act during the New Deal