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California Gold Rush
1848- james wilson marshall from NJ found flakes of gold in a american river at the base of nevada near california. Days after his discovery treaty signed to end war with mexico and gave over their land to the US. Miners found more than 750k lbs of gold during the cali gold rush. After 1850 most of the gold disappeared but miners continued to show up -
Fort Atkinson Treaty
The Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 had been negotiated with tribes that might threaten the Oregon Trail. To protect the Santa Fe Trail, the government negotiated the Fort Atkinson Treaty in Kansas with the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache. -
Comstock Load
The Comstock Lode is a lode of silver ore located under the eastern slope of Mount Davidson, a peak in the Virginia Rangein Nevada. After the discovery of silver was made public in 1859, it sparked a silver rush of prospectors to the area, scrambling to stake their claims. The discovery caused considerable excitement in California and throughout the United States, the greatest since the California Gold Rush in 1849. -
Homestead Act
Signed into law by President Lincoln on May 20, 1862. Anyone who had never taken up arms against the U.S. government (including freed slaves and women), was 21 years or older, or the head of a family, could file an application to claim a federal land grant. -
Sand Creek Massacre
The Sand Creek massacre was an atrocity in the American Indian Wars that occurred on November 29, 1864, when a 700-man force of Colorado Territory militia attacked and destroyed a peaceful village of Cheyenne and Arapaho inhabited in southeastern Colorado Territory, killing and mutilating an estimated about 100 Indians, two-thirds of whom were women and children. -
Crazy Horse/ William J. Fetterman (Bozeman Trail)
A north-south trail through Powder River followed by the Indians for ages. John Bozeman and John Jacobs both explored this trail marking Native American landmarks and features that would become recognizable to future travelers in 1859-1860. -
Fort Laramie Treaties
In the spring of 1868 a meeting was held at Fort Laramie, in what is now Wyoming, which resulted in a treaty with the Sioux. This treaty brought peace between the whites and the Sioux who agreed to settle within the Black Hills reservation located in the Dakota Territory.
