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The Native Indians of Montana
were the Arapaho, Arikara, Assiniboin, Atsina,
Bannock, Cheyenne, Chippewa, Cree, Crow, Dakota,
Hidatsa, Kalispel, Kiowa, Kutenai, Mandan, Nez Perce,
Piegan, Salish, Tunaheand the Spokan tribes. Montana
was first explored by the Spanish
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Most of the Montana area was
subject to the Louisiana Purchase of 1803 |
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1756 |
1756 - 1763: The Seven Years
War (French and Indian War) due to disputes over
land is won by Great Britain. France gives England
all French territory east of the Mississippi River,
except New Orleans. The Spanish give up east and
west Florida to the English in return for Cuba.
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1775 |
1775 - 1783 - The American
Revolution creates the United States of America. The
Revolution was due to the British burden of taxes
and total power to legislate any laws governing the
American colonies
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1776 |
July 4, 1776 - United States
Declaration of Independence |
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1778 |
July 10, 1778 - France
declares war against Britain and makes an alliance
with the American revolutionary forces
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1783 |
September 3, 1783 - The Treaty
of Paris is signed by the victorious United States
and the defeated Great Britain
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1800's |
Conflict erupts between
settlers and Native Indians including the Arapaho,
Arikara, Assiniboin, Atsina, Bannock, Cheyenne,
Chippewa, Cree, Crow, Dakota, Hidatsa, Kalispel,
Kiowa, Kutenai, Mandan, Nez Perce, Piegan, Salish,
Tunaheand the Spokan tribes throughout the 1800's.
The Native Indians are gradually forced to cede
their lands
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1803 |
The Louisiana Purchase - In
1803, the United States bought the Louisiana
Territory from France. The U.S. Secretary of State,
James Madison paid 15 million dollars for the land
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1805 |
1805 - 1806: Choctaw and
northern (Chickasaw and Cherokee) Indian cessions
open up land to white settlement
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1805 |
1805-1806: Lewis and
Clark explore Montana ( Meriwether Lewis (1774-1809)
and William Clark (1770- 1838)
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1812 |
1812 - 1815: The War of 1812
between U.S. and Great Britain, ended in a stalemate
but confirmed America's Independence
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1846 |
The Oregon Treaty gives the
rest of Montana to the U.S. |
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1861 |
1861 - 1865: The American
Civil War. In 1859 John Brown raided Harpers Ferry
and set in motion events that led directly to the
outbreak of the Civil War. Abraham Lincoln, a known
opponent of slavery, was elected president and in
1861 the South Secedes. The initial Secession of
South Carolina was followed by the secession of
Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana,
Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North
Carolina. These eleven states eventually formed the
Confederate States of America. The bombardment of
Fort Sumter was the opening engagement of the
American Civil War.
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1865 |
The surrender of Robert E. Lee
on April 9 1865 signalled the end of the Confederacy |
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1865 |
1865 December 6 - The
Abolishment of Slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment to
the U.S. Constitution is ratified, thus officially
abolishing slavery
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1872 |
Congress creates Yellowstone
National Park |
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1876 |
The Plains Indians including
the Sioux, Cheyenne, Arapahoe, Ute, Kiowa, Lakota
and Comanche nations fought bitter wars over the
land during the 1800's led by chiefs such as Crazy
Horse, Red Cloud, and Sitting Bull.
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1876 |
George Armstrong Custer is
defeated at the Battle of the Little Bighorn on June
25, 1876. Treaties were made and broken and there
were bloody massacres. Many of the tribes were
forced to go to Indian Reservations
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1876 |
Nez Pierce Indian Chief Joseph
lead his people out of Oregon into Montana, but was
forced to surrender in 1877 near Bear's Paw
Mountains in northern Montana
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1889 |
Statehood - The Date that
Montana was admitted to the Union - November 8,1889.
Constitution - Montana was the 41st State to be
admitted to the Union. State Motto - " Oro y plata "
the State Motto is translated as " Gold and Silver "
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1898 |
1898 -1901: The Spanish
American War. On December 10, 1898 the Treaty of
Paris the US annexes Puerto Rico, Guam, Philippines.
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