Unit 2- The Last Frontier

Important People, Terms, and Places (know what it is and its significance)

You should be able to write an essay discussing the following:

1. The effect mining and the railroads had on the development of the American West?
2. The chronology of the Boomtown to Ghost town cycle.
3. The effect the settlement of the frontier had on the Native American Populations of the west.
4. The importance of the buffalo to the Native Americans
5. The harsh life of the farmer on the western frontier and their attempts to survive
6. Treaties made and broken with Native Americans and laws passed to speed the demise of their culture.

Important Dates to Remember

1849 -  California Gold Rush

1851 – The Fort Laramie Treaty

1859 -  The Comstock Lode

1862 – The Homestead Act

1869 – Transcontinental Railroad Completed

1876 – Little Big Horn

1877 – Flight of the Nez Perce         

1887 – The Dawes Act

1889 -  Oklahoma Land Rush

1890 – Wounded Knee