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Mapping Conquest Key Events Maps Transcript Webography

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1862

Link to TranscriptPacific Railway Act

 

Link to TranscriptHomestead Act
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1864

Link to TranscriptSand Creek Massacre

1868

Link to TranscriptWashita Creek battle

1869

Link to TranscriptWyoming passes woman suffrage

1872

Link to TranscriptCredit Mobilier scandal

 

Yellowstone becomes first national park

1873

Barbed wire invented

1876

Link to TranscriptBattle of Little Big Horn

1877

Surrender of Nez Percé and Chief Joseph

1881 -
1882

Chinese Exclusion Acts

1883

National time zones standardaized

1886

Link to TranscriptSurrender of Geronimo

1887

Link to TranscriptDawes Act

Late
1880s

Link to TranscriptFarmers Alliances founded

1890

Link to TranscriptWounded Knee Massacre

 

Yosemite National Park established

1892

Link to TranscriptPeople's Party founded

1893

Turner announces closing of the frontier

An interactive, expanded timeline for the period after 1876 can be found in Program 26.


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