Settlement of the American West timeline | Timetoast Timelines

Period: 1800 to 1900

The Settlement of the Frontier

The American West
1820

Missouri Compromise

http://www.history.com/topics/missouri-compromise
1825

Erie Canal Completed

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/erie-canal-opens
1833

City of Chicago Founded

population 200 http://www.history.com/topics/chicago
1837

Cyrus McCormick Patents a Mechanical Reaper

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Cyrus-McCormick
1848

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo Signed

http://www.history.com/topics/mexican-american-war
1849

California Gold Rush

http://www.history.com/topics/gold-rush-of-1849
1857

Comstock Lode Discovered

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtid=2&psid=3149
Period: 1861 to 1865

American Civil War

http://www.historytoday.com/fern-riddell/end-american-civil-war
1862

Homestead Act and Morrill Land Grant Acts Passed

http://www.history.com/topics/homestead-act
1867

First Cattle Drive On the Chisholm Trail
1869

Transcontinental Railroad Completed

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-transcontinental-railroad-is-completed
1869

Wyoming Women Get the Right to Vote

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/wyoming-legislators-write-the-first-state-constitution-to-grant-women-the-vote
1879

Exodusters Go West

https://www.nps.gov/home/learn/historyculture/exodusters.htm
1887

Dawes Severalty Act Passed

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/cleveland-signs-the-dawes-severalty-act
1890

Frontier Closed, Chicago population passes 1 million

http://www.history.com/topics/chicago
1890

Wounded Knee Massacre

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/u-s-army-massacres-indians-at-wounded-knee
1892

Populist Party Impacts National Politics

http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=29616
1893

World Columbian Exposition in Chicago

http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/1386.html
1893

Armed Populists Occupy Kansas Legislature

https://www.kshs.org/kansapedia/populism/15160
1896

Populist Party Collapses

https://www.270towin.com/1896_Election/
1900

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz published

http://americanhistory.si.edu/blog/populism-oz