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American West - Key Dates
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- 11820A 14 year old boy,Joseph Smith, prays for guidance from God.
- 21827Joseph Smith has a visitation by an Angel called Moroni about Gold Plates.
- 31830The Book of Mormon was published.
- 41837Great Financial Crisis
Banks collapsed and the Mormons were chased out. Smith would not lead his Mormons West. - 527th June 1844Joseph Smith dies after Polygamy "revelation".
He was shot dead as he tried to escape from jail.
Brigham Young was the new leader of the Mormons and chose to lead them West, to Great Salt Lake where they settled successfully. This was an important turning point for the Mormons. - 61847Arrived in Salt Lake City
- 71848/9Gold Rush 1848-9
Forty-Niners! - 81851First Fort Laramie Treaty
- 91862The Homestead Act.
- 101864The Massacre of Sand Creek
- 111866First Cattle Drives Established
- 121868Second Fort Laramie Treaty
- 131869The completion of the Transcontinental Railroad
It cut the westward travel time from six months to one week. - 141876The Battle of the Little Bighorn.
- 151876The Battle of the Little Bighorn.
- 161887The end of the Open Range.
- 171890The Battle of Wounded Knee and Ghost Movement.
- 181640Indians started using horses to travel and fight.
- 191890Indians defeated - on reservations
- 201845The phrase "Manifest Destiny" was started by John O'Sullivan of the New York Times.
- 211873Timber Culture Act
- 221877Desert Land Act
- 231861-1865Civil War
- 241874Wind Pump - Daniel Halliday
Barbed Wire - Joseph Gliddon
Sod Buster - John Deere - 251865-70Charles Goodnight
- 261889Jim Averill and Ella Watson, two homesteaders, were lynched by Cattle Barons
- 271892Johnson County War
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- Rachel I-J · Apr 2014
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