America Expansion and Consolidation

By i_kamwenje

  • Slavery Disappearance in the North

  • Missouri Compromise

  • Bureau of Indian Affairs Set Up

  • Indian Removal Act

    (Created a Permanent Indian Frontier)

  • Anti-Slavery Soceity Set Up

  • Economic Depression

  • Sand Creek Massacre

    (Colonel Chivington)

  • United States Took Over Texas Causing the Mexican American War

  • Britain Gave the USA Oregon

  • Brigham Young Leads Mormons to the Great Salt Lake

    (16,000 Mormons)
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    Mexican-American War

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    Californian Gold Rush

  • California Joins America as a Free State

  • Indian Appropriations Act

    (Set up reservations)

  • Fort Larmie Treaty

    Signed between the US government and Native Americans

  • Settlers Move Into Kansas and Nebraska

    (Breaking the Fort Laramie treaty)

  • Kansas and Nebraska are Formed

  • John Brown Attacked Harper's Ferry

  • Abraham Lincoln Elected as President

    Republican
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    American Civil War

  • Gold Found in the Rocky Mountains

    (Created the Bozeman Trail)

  • Emancipation Proclamation

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    Cheyenne War

    Cheyenne and Arapahoe vs American militia

  • Cheyenne Move Onto Sand Creek

    (Led by Black Kettle)

  • Abraham Lincoln Assassinated

    (John Wilkes Booth)

  • 13th Amendment

    Abolishment of slavery
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    Sioux/Red Cloud's War

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    Reconstruction

  • Fetterman's Massacre

  • 14th Amendment

    Designed to limit state power that grant Black Codes

  • Second Fort Laramie Treaty

  • 15th Amendment

    Free male slaves given voting rights

  • All Southern States Rejoned The Union

  • Gold Discovered in The Black Hills North Dakota

    Sioux Sacred Lands

  • Southern Buffalo Herd Destroyed

  • Sioux Ordered to Return to the Reservation

    (Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse)

  • Northern Herd of Buffalo Destroyed

  • Dawes Act

    Broke reeservations into smaller farming plots

  • Ghost Dance Movement

    Religious Movement

  • Wounded Knee Massacre

  • Mormons Ban Polygamy

  • Utah Becomes a US State