Interactive Timeline – 1868-1900

correct incorrect Apr Treaty of Fort Laramie creates Great Sioux Reservation in Black Hills

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Chinese floods, famine, and opium wars push millions to seek opportunity in North America

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Canadian Pacific Railroad cuts across vast swaths of First Nations territory

correct incorrect May Transcontinental Railroad Central Pacific and Union Pacific lines meet in Utah

correct incorrect Apr Indian Appropriations Act signed; "Peace Policy" begins

correct incorrect May John Wesley Powell launches a series of surveys of the Colorado River

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Ninety-four British companies register to invest and mine ore in the American West

correct incorrect Mar Yellowstone becomes designated America's first national park

correct incorrect Aug Custer expedition discovers gold in Black Hills of Dakota

correct incorrect J. W. Powell publishes The Exploration of the Colorado River

correct incorrect Jun Battle of Little Big Horn

correct incorrect THE WORLD: U.S. railroads send agents throughout Europe promising "free land" to immigrants

correct incorrect Feb Congress repeals Fort Laramie Treaty taking the Black Hills from the Lakota

correct incorrect Mar Congress passes Desert Land Act allowing for purchases of up to 640 acres in arid regions

correct incorrect Sep Crazy Horse killed after surrendering at Ft. Robinson, NE

correct incorrect Oct Nez Perce resistance leader, Chief Joseph, surrenders

correct incorrect Mar Jack Johnson, boxer, born to two former slaves in Galveston, TX

correct incorrect J. W. Powell's Report on the Lands of the Arid Region published 40,000 Exodusters migrate to Kansas

correct incorrect Mar Congress creates United States Geological Survey

correct incorrect Oct 84 Lakota children enrolled at the Carlisle, PA, Indian Training School

correct incorrect Oct "Hop Alley" violence against Chinese

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Nov Chinese Exclusion Treaty restricts Chinese immigration and citizenship

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Ferrocarril Nacional Mexicano, the Mexican National Railroad, incorporated in Colorado with agreement with Rio Grande Company

correct incorrect THE WORLD: May Chinese Exclusion Act halts Chinese immigration

correct incorrect Summer American buffalo near extinction after last mass hunt on northern Plains

correct incorrect Buffalo Bill stages his first Wild West Show

correct incorrect Feb Roosevelt moves to his Dakota cattle ranch

correct incorrect Sep 51 Chinese miners killed during race riots in Rock Springs, WY

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Gold discoveries lead to Witwatersrand global rush in South Africa

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Buffalo Bill invited to tour England, perform for Queen Victoria and world leaders across Europe

correct incorrect Feb Dawes/General Allotment Act breaks up Indian reservations

correct incorrect Jun Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show plays to Queen Victoria in London

correct incorrect Mar Blizzards and cold decimate cattle herds across the Great Plains

correct incorrect Jun Frederick Jackson Turner argues frontier is "closed"

correct incorrect Dec Sitting Bull killed

correct incorrect Dec Lakota Ghost Dancers murdered at Wounded Knee, SD

correct incorrect Mar Forest Reserve Act enacted, giving the president authority to remove forested lands from public domain and protect them from exploitation

correct incorrect May Sierra Club founded with John Muir as first president

correct incorrect May Western Federation of Miners (WFM)

correct incorrect May World Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago

correct incorrect THE WORLD: London company sends American engineer and future president Herbert Hoover to Australia gold fields

correct incorrect Sep Storm destroys Galveston, TX, killing 8,000