Settlement of the American West By kneal64 Period: 1800 to 1900 The Settlement of the Frontier The American West 1820 Missouri Compromise http://www.history.com/topics/missouri-compromise 1825 Erie Canal Completed http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/erie-canal-opens 1833 City of Chicago Founded population 200 http://www.history.com/topics/chicago 1837 Cyrus McCormick Patents a Mechanical Reaper https://www.britannica.com/biography/Cyrus-McCormick 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo Signed http://www.history.com/topics/mexican-american-war 1849 California Gold Rush http://www.history.com/topics/gold-rush-of-1849 1857 Comstock Lode Discovered http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtid=2&psid=3149 Period: 1861 to 1865 American Civil War http://www.historytoday.com/fern-riddell/end-american-civil-war 1862 Homestead Act and Morrill Land Grant Acts Passed http://www.history.com/topics/homestead-act 1867 First Cattle Drive On the Chisholm Trail 1869 Transcontinental Railroad Completed http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-transcontinental-railroad-is-completed 1869 Wyoming Women Get the Right to Vote http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/wyoming-legislators-write-the-first-state-constitution-to-grant-women-the-vote 1879 Exodusters Go West https://www.nps.gov/home/learn/historyculture/exodusters.htm 1887 Dawes Severalty Act Passed http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/cleveland-signs-the-dawes-severalty-act 1890 Frontier Closed, Chicago population passes 1 million http://www.history.com/topics/chicago 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/u-s-army-massacres-indians-at-wounded-knee 1892 Populist Party Impacts National Politics http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=29616 1893 World Columbian Exposition in Chicago http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/1386.html 1893 Armed Populists Occupy Kansas Legislature https://www.kshs.org/kansapedia/populism/15160 1896 Populist Party Collapses https://www.270towin.com/1896_Election/ 1900 The Wonderful Wizard of Oz published http://americanhistory.si.edu/blog/populism-oz
