Southwest

  • Bejamin Bonneville led the first wagon trail across the Rocky Mountains.

  • The vague unrest erupted into an armed conflict at The Battle of Gonzales.

  • Texas signed the declartion of Texas independence.

  • Texas was not a state.

  • Period: to

    1845 to 2000

  • Texas is still not a state.

  • Texas became a state.

  • Mexican-american war ignited.

  • Powell geographic expedition was one of the first american parties or groups to sight the colorado river.

  • Arizona adopted saguaro cactus as state territorial plant.

  • Oklahoma became a state.

  • New Mexico became a state.

  • Arizona became a state.

  • Arizonian flag adopted.

  • Big Bend Natoinal Park became a national park.

  • Big Bend National Park became open to tourists

  • A TWA lockhead super constellation and a United airline Douglas DC.7 crashed above the grand canyon killing at least 128 passengers.

  • Arizona adopted cactus wren as state bird.

  • The Alfred P. Murrah Fedarel Building got blown up by terrorists, killing 168 people, Incuding 19 kids.