Timeline

Ask yourself why this chapter begins and ends with these dates and then identify the links among related events.

1854

  • United States “opens” Japan to trade
1859

  • Comstock silver lode discovered in Nevada
1862

  • Homestead Act

  • Dakota Sioux uprising in Minnesota

  • Morrill Act funds public state universities
1864

  • Sand Creek massacre of Cheyennes in Colorado

  • Yosemite Valley reserved as public park
1865

  • Long Drive of Texas longhorns begins
1866

  • Fetterman massacre
1868

  • Burlingame Treaty with China
1869

  • Transcontinental railroad completed

  • Wyoming women’s suffrage
1870

  • Utah women’s suffrage
1872

  • General Mining Act

  • Yellowstone National Park created
1873

  • United States begins move to gold standard
1876

  • Battle of Little Big Horn
1877

  • Nez Perces forcibly removed from ancestral homelands in Northwest

  • Munn v. Illinois Supreme Court decision
1879

  • Exoduster migration to Kansas

  • John Wesley Powell presents Report on the Lands of the Arid Region of the United States
1880s

  • Rise of the Ghost Dance movement
1885

  • Sitting Bull tours with Buffalo Bill’s Wild West
1886

  • Dry cycle begins on the plains

  • Chiricahua Apache leader Geronimo surrenders
1887

  • Dawes Severalty Act
1890

  • Massacre of Sioux Ghost Dancers at Wounded Knee, South Dakota

Question

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