Timeline and Terms

Events

A Century of Dishonor
Anti-Chinese bill vetoed
Bannock War
Barbed wire patented
Battle of Little Bighorn
Bison nearly extinct
Buffalo Bill’s “Wild West”
Centennial Exhibition
Chinese Exclusion Act
Colorado entered the Union
Crédit Mobilier scandal
Dawes Act
Desert Land Act
Enabling Act of 1889
Forest Reserve Act
Fort Laramie Treaty
Frederick Jackson Turner’s “Frontier Thesis”
Geronimo’s surrender
Great Northern Railway completed
Great Railway Strike of 1877
Harsh weather affected livestock in the West
Homestead Act
Idaho became a state
Indian Rights Association founded
Nevada silver mine boom
Newlands Reclamation Act
Nez Perce War
Northern Pacific Railroad completed
Oklahoma land run
Oklahoma Territory established
Pacific Railroad Act
Red Cloud’s War
Repeal of Fort Laramie Treaty
Rock Springs Massacre
San Francisco Earthquake of 1906
Seattle Anti-Chinese Riot
Tacoma Anti-Chinese Riot
Telephone patented
Transcontinental railroad completed
US Geological Survey established
Utah entered the Union
William Jennings Bryan nominated for president
Wounded Knee
Wyoming became a state
Yellowstone National Park Act
Yosemite National Park created

People

Alexander Graham Bell
Chief Joseph
conservationists
Crazy Horse
George Armstrong Custer
Gifford Pinchot
Grover Cleveland
James B. Hickok
John Muir
Rutherford B. Hayes
Sitting Bull
Theodore Roosevelt
Ulysses S. Grant
Willa Cather
William F. Cody
William Jennings Bryan
William McKinley
Wyatt Earp

Places

Great Plains
Great Sioux Reservation
Yellowstone

Organizations

Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
Big Four
buffalo soldiers
Central Pacific Railroad
Crédit Mobilier
Great Northern Railway
Northern Pacific Rail Road
preservationists
Southern Pacific Railroad
Union Pacific Railroad