Here they are… back by popular demand…

Mrs. Piermattei’sone and onlyfamous patented cheesy rhymes!!!

Remember to say the date out loud in full to make the rhyme

• E.g. “In eighteen hundred and forty nine......”• Chanting these to yourself will help you

remember them• Test yourself by not clicking on the answer to

see if you can remember it

• If you can think of a better rhyme, let me know!

In 1825...

Mountain Men kept the fur trade alive

In 1827...

Joseph Smith had a vision from heaven

In 1843...

Wagons are crossing the great “praireee!”

In 1845...

Manifest Destiny comes alive

In 1846...

Brigham Young saves the Mormons from insults and sticks

In 1849...

Everyone rushed to the Californian mines

In 1851...Fort Laramie’s treaty tried to please everyone

In 1859...

The treaty was broken at a Colorado mine

In 1861...

Indians meet settlers at Fort Lyon

In 1862...

The Homestead Act gave free land -yoo-hoo!

In 1864...

Peace with the Cheyenne was broken once more

Sand Creek Massacre

1865...

The civil war ended, no more north south divide

In 1867...

Abilene becomes a cowboy’s haven

In 1868...

• Red Cloud to Fort Laramie for a treaty debate

In 1869...

East joined west by a railway line

In 1873...

• More land for free, if you plant some trees

By 1875...

• Cowboys worked hard on the long cattle drive

In 1874...

Barbed wire makes fencing a problem no more

In 1874...

• Gold in the Black Hills means serious war

In 1876

• Custer’s Cavalry were in a fix

Battle of the Little Bighorn(Custer’s Last Stand)

In 1887...

Tribes were split up in the Dawes Act convention

In 1891...

At Wounded Knee the settlers had won

In 1892...

Johnson County vigilantes were a terrible crew

By the beginning of the Twentieth Century...

The American Frontier was history....