Period 6 Dates

Americans settling in Colorado

1858

Americans settling in Nevada & Publishing of On the Origin of Species

1859

Americans settling in Idaho

1860

Americans settling in Montana

1863

Americans settling in the Black Hills & Americans discovering gold in the Black Hills

1874

Homestead Act of _ & Dakota War

1862

Sand Creek Massacre

1864

Indian Peace Commission & Treaty of Burlingame

1868

Battle of Little Bighorn

1876

Beginning of Great Sioux War

1865

Crazy Horse led a band of Oglala Sioux to surrender in

May, 1877

Sitting Bull and his followers laid down their weapons

July, 1881

Navajo Long Walks

1863-1866

Compromise of _; Great Railroad Strike of ; Munn v. Illinois

1877

Bland-Allison Act of _

1878

Dawes Act & Interstate Commerce Act

1887

Wounded Knee Massacre

1890

Founding of the Knights of Labor

1869

Great Southwest Railroad Strike & Haymarket Riot & Wabash v. Illinois

1886

Homestead Strike

1892

Pullman Strike

1894

Panic of _

1893

California Gold Rush

1849

Chinese Exclusion Act

1882