Question

write a narrative account analysing the ways in which the US government policy toward the plain Indians developed in the period 1835-51. You many use the following in your answer: -the permanent Indian frontier 1834 -The indian Appropriations act 1851 Do two PEE paragraphs. I'm in year 9 so make your answers abit basic.

Answer 1

Explanation• 1834 Permanent Indian Frontier set up

• 1843 First settlers arrive in Oregon encouraged by government legislation

• 1844 Mormon persecution in Nauvoo

• 1846 Donner Party head west but meet with disaster and death

• Mormons travel to the Great Salt Lake having been driven out of Nauvoo

• 1848 Gold discovered in California

• 1850s First homesteaders move to the Plains

• 1851 Fort Laramie Treaty (1)

• 1858–59 Gold discovered in the Pikes Peak region of the Rocky Mountains

• 1859 Gold mines opened in Colorado and Nevada

• 1861 Start of the American Civil War between North and South America

• 1862 Homestead Act

• Little Crow’s War

• Pacific Railway Act passed and work begins on the transcontinental railway

• 1864 Sand Creek Massacre

• 1865 End of the American Civil War

• Slavery abolished in the US

• 1866 Group of US army soldiers wiped out at Fetterman’s Trap by Plains Indians

• Red Cloud’s War on the US Government in their attempt to build forts in Montana

• Goodnight and Loving reach Fort Sumner with 1,700 cattle

• 1867 Medicine Lodge Creek

• Abilene becomes the first cow town

• ‘The Beef Bonanza’

• 1868 ‘The Winter Campaign’

• Fort Laramie Treaty (2)

• 1869 Railroad completed despite opposition from some Americans

• 1870 Cattle Ranching begins on the Plains which led to the ‘Open Range’

• 1873 Timber and Culture Act

• 1874 Barbed wire begins to be mass-produced

• Wind-powered water pump introduced

• Custer leads expedition to the Black Hills ignoring the

• Treaty of Fort Laramie

• 1876 The Great Sioux War begins between the US Army and the Sioux Indians

• Battle of the Little Big Horn

• 1881 Sitting Bull and followers surrender to the American government

• 1885 All Plains Indians are resettled on to reservations

• Northern herd of buffalo is completely destroyed

• 1886 Severe winter leads to smaller ranches with barbed fences and wind pumps that eventually lead to

the end of the cowboy era

• 1887 Dawes Act

• 1890 Battle of Wounded Knee

• US government closes frontier in which the Plains Indians had lost their land

• 1892 Johnson County War

American West key dates

These are the key dates to learn for the American West.