Sitting bull

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

By dimwhit

  • CA gold rush

    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.

  • Gold discovery at Pike's Peak in Colorado

    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.

  • 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.

  • Nevada statehood

    Nevada statehood
    Comstock lode helps lead to Nevada statehood

  • 250,00 Native Americans lived in the West

  • Treaty of Fort Laramie 1868

    Treaty of Fort Laramie 1868
    Treaty of Fort Laramie 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

  • Invention of Barbed Wire

    Joseph Glidden invented the bared wire in 1874

  • Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce "I will fight no more forever"

    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.

  • A century of Disorder

    Helen Hunt Jackson's book. It created awareness for the awareness to the injustices to the INdians.

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

    Prohibited further immigration by Chinese laborers. It was the 1st major act of Congress to prohibit immigration based on race.

  • 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.

  • 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".

  • Oklahoma territory open for settlement

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Indian Reorganization Act of 1934

    Indian Reorganization Act of 1934
    Indian Reorganization Act during the New Deal