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Events in the west 1870-1880

Events in the west 1870-1880. WC. By Cory Walsh. 1870. Back to Timeline. Bret Harte publishes  The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Sketches This establishes a set of stereotypes that will remain an important part of the myth of the American West .

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Events in the west 1870-1880

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  1. Events in the west 1870-1880 WC By Cory Walsh

  2. 1870 Back to Timeline • Bret Harte publishes The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Sketches • This establishes a set of stereotypes that will remain an important part of the myth of the American West. • The Union Pacific in Wyoming hires Chinese laborers for $32.50 a month rather than pay $52.00 a month to whites; this leads to a violent racial conflict and a labor unrest in the years to come.

  3. 1871 Back to Timeline More than 100 Apaches -- most of them women and children -- are murdered outside Camp Grant, Arizona.

  4. 1872 Back to Timeline The Yellowstone Act sets aside more than 2 million acres in northwest Wyoming. This is the first time the national government has set aside public land to preserve their natural beauties.

  5. 1873 Back to Timeline Although federal authorities estimate that hunters are killing buffalo at a rate of three million per year, President Grant vetoes a law protecting the herd from extermination.

  6. 1874 Back to Timeline Mennonite immigrants from Russia arrive in Kansas with drought-resistant "Turkey Red" wheat, which will help turn the one-time "Great American Desert" into the nation's breadbasket.

  7. 1875 Back to Timeline Deadwood, soon to be one of the wildest towns in the West, springs into existence when Black Hills miners find gold on Deadwood Creek. Within a year, the legendary gunfighter "Wild Bill" Hickock will be murdered here while holding aces and eights -- the dead man's hand -- in a game of poker. THE LAKOTA WARA Senate commission meeting with Red Cloud and other Lakota chiefs to negotiate legal access for the miners rushing to the Black Hills offers to buy the region for $6 million. But the Lakota refuse to alter the terms of the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty, and declare they will protect their lands from intruders if the government won't.

  8. 1876 Back to Timeline Custer's Last Stand Colorado enters the Union

  9. 1877 Back to Timeline Congress votes to repeal the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty and take back the Black Hills, along with 40 million more acres of Lakota land. Congress passes the Desert Land Act, which permits settlers to purchase up to 640 acres of public land at 25¢ per acre in areas where the arid climate requires large-scale farming, provided they irrigate the land. The last Federal troops withdraw from the South, bringing the Reconstruction era to an end.

  10. 1878 Back to Timeline With racial discrimination on the rise in the post-Reconstruction South, an estimated 40,000 African Americans begin to migrate from the former slave states into Kansas. Many of these so-called Exodusters answer the call of Benjamin “Pap” Singleton, a land speculator with a vision of establishing independent black communities across the state.

  11. 1879 Back to Timeline The Supreme Court upholds the constitutionality of anti-polygamy laws, denying Mormon arguments that plural marriage is protected under the First Amendent guarantee of religious freedom and giving federal authorities the weapon they have hoped for in their efforts to break the alliance between church and state in Utah.

  12. 1880 Back to Timeline President Benjamin Hayes signs the Chinese Exclusion Treaty.

  13. Works Cited CONTINUED http://www.google.com/imgres?q=camp+grant+massacre&um=1&hl=en&biw=1280&bih=675&tbm=isch&tbnid=8Ko-TxCW_R8ibM:&imgrefurl=http://redantliberationarmy.wordpress.com/indian-genocides/&docid=YnJZosUBk2xsvM&imgurl=http://www.eaglesnestcenter.org/wounded-knee.jpg&w=511&h=384&ei=nml3UImZMIvM9ASGvID4DQ&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=184&vpy=33&dur=2038&hovh=195&hovw=259&tx=177&ty=146&sig=116093907756657515811&page=1&tbnh=146&tbnw=187&start=0&ndsp=25&ved=1t:429,r:12,s:0,i:104 http://www.google.com/imgres?q=yellowstone+national+park&um=1&hl=en&sa=N&biw=1280&bih=675&tbm=isch&tbnid=sByztWAZBmVk1M:&imgrefurl=http://www.rockymountainmagazine.com/national-parks/yellowstone-national-park/&docid=qRsNqi1Lsps6YM&imgurl=http://www.rockymountainmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Yellowstone-National-Park.jpg&w=1600&h=1200&ei=7Wp3UKZfiejxBNWXgKgL&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=431&vpy=352&dur=1090&hovh=194&hovw=259&tx=198&ty=99&sig=116093907756657515811&page=1&tbnh=145&tbnw=202&start=0&ndsp=15&ved=1t:429,r:6,s:0,i:155 http://www.google.com/imgres?q=buffalo+in+the+west&um=1&hl=en&biw=1280&bih=675&tbm=isch&tbnid=nSCslLNkZYnmWM:&imgrefurl=http://merrillcoffin.com/2011/10/buffalos-in-the-west/&docid=4c6Ayrw1ddWp5M&imgurl=http://merrillcoffin.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/abbott-connieb.jpg&w=600&h=489&ei=6mt3ULWoOIL-9QTZkoDICA&zoom=1&iact=rc&dur=454&sig=116093907756657515811&page=1&tbnh=133&tbnw=171&start=0&ndsp=22&ved=1t:429,r:0,s:0,i:68&tx=119&ty=98 http://www.google.com/imgres?q=turkey+red+wheat&um=1&hl=en&biw=1280&bih=675&tbm=isch&tbnid=_21FfSg5oJ0ztM:&imgrefurl=http://www.kshs.org/p/cool-things-turkey-red-wheat/16789&docid=8g_is5i7fLj1vM&imgurl=http://www.kshs.org/cool2/graphics/wheat_marionco.jpg&w=634&h=467&ei=_Wx3UJjNAYfQ9ATXwIC4CA&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=181&vpy=153&dur=622&hovh=193&hovw=262&tx=120&ty=95&sig=116093907756657515811&page=1&tbnh=141&tbnw=183&start=0&ndsp=23&ved=1t:429,r:0,s:0,i:68 http://www.google.com/imgres?q=custer%27s+last+stand&um=1&hl=en&biw=1280&bih=675&tbm=isch&tbnid=VUtvpCc1ipWWTM:&imgrefurl=http://tainted-archive.blogspot.com/2010/09/great-silent-witness-of-battle-for.html&docid=XaVeaKMOW-P6IM&imgurl=http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Cb4mdL5MI2A/TH-J_mURi1I/AAAAAAAAHUU/HDx47mvJXAA/s1600/custers_last_stand.jpg&w=550&h=389&ei=1G53UNyQFonO9ASwuoHIAQ&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=760&vpy=375&dur=730&hovh=189&hovw=267&tx=138&ty=174&sig=116093907756657515811&page=1&tbnh=129&tbnw=167&start=0&ndsp=15&ved=1t:429,r:8,s:0,i:164

  14. Works Cited Back to Timeline http://www.google.com/imgres?q=colorado+enters+the+union&um=1&hl=en&biw=1280&bih=675&tbm=isch&tbnid=Dq8jH26R1hyUPM:&imgrefurl=http://www.flag-works.com/Colorado_State_Flag.htm&docid=hqiC_kKqXDobxM&imgurl=http://www.flag-works.com/images/Colorado.gif&w=324&h=216&ei=am93UPffBY-m8gTbgoCgDw&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=988&vpy=224&dur=275&hovh=159&hovw=239&tx=40&ty=107&sig=116093907756657515811&page=1&tbnh=159&tbnw=239&start=0&ndsp=16&ved=1t:429,r:5,s:0,i:85 http://www.google.com/imgres?q=chinese+exclusion+act&um=1&hl=en&biw=1280&bih=675&tbm=isch&tbnid=pG4CcBymksQpfM:&imgrefurl=http://sun.menloschool.org/~mbrody/ushistory/angel/exclusion_act/&docid=aAcxx2GNkJ2p0M&imgurl=http://sun.menloschool.org/~mbrody/ushistory/angel/exclusion_act/statuehead.jpg&w=561&h=387&ei=znB3UPGeE4-i8gSrh4HwDA&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=433&vpy=194&dur=3597&hovh=186&hovw=270&tx=213&ty=63&sig=116093907756657515811&page=1&tbnh=144&tbnw=218&start=0&ndsp=20&ved=1t:429,r:2,s:0,i:127

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