Indian Timeline
Subject:
US History [1]
1859 Nevada Comstock Lode is discovered
1862 Homestead Act becomes law
1864 Sand Creek Massacre
1864 Nevada is admitted into the Union
1867 National Grange is organized
1876 The Battle of Little Bighorn
1876 Colorado admitted into Union
1877 Nez Perce Indian War
1881 Helen Hunt Jackson publishes A Century of Dishonor
1884 Federal government outlaws Indian SunDance
1885-1890 Local chapters of Farmer's Alliance formed
1887 Dawes Severalty Act
1889 Oklahoma opened to settlement
1889-1890 North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Washington, Idaho, and Wyoming all admitted to the Union
1890 Census bureau declares frontier line ended
1890 Emergence of People's partyPopulists)
1890 Battle of Wounded Knee