A Biography of America
The West – Key Events
1862
Pacific Railway Act
Homestead Act
1864
Sand Creek Massacre
1868
Washita Creek battle
1869
Wyoming passes woman suffrage
1872
Credit Mobilier scandal
Yellowstone becomes first national park
1873
Barbed wire invented
1876
Battle of Little Big Horn
1877
Surrender of Nez Percé and Chief Joseph
1881 - 1882
Chinese Exclusion Acts
1883
National time zones standardized
1886
Surrender of Geronimo
1887
Dawes Act
Late 1880s
Farmers Alliances founded
1890
Wounded Knee Massacre
Yosemite National Park established
1892
People’s Party founded
1893
Turner announces closing of the frontier