On December 16, Benjamin Edwards rode into Mexican-controlled Nacogdoches, Texas, and proclaimed himself the ruler of the Republic of Fredonia. It was the first of a series of removal treaties. ġ826 – On January 24, the Creek people agreed to cede their land in Georgia and move west. Rocky Mountain Rendezvous by William Henry Jacksonġ825 – The first mountain man’s rendezvous takes place on Henry’s Fork of the Green River in what is now Wyoming. This event would be the most important of the early 19th-century battles between natives and mountain men.Īugust 1823 – A force of 500 Sioux and 200 American soldiers led by Colonel Henry Leavenworth retaliated by attacking the Arikara.ġ824 – James Bridger discovers the Great Salt Lake.Ĭongress creates the Bureau of Indian Affairs. On June 2, Arikara people attacked William Ashley and his band of fur traders at the present-day border between North and South Dakota. The first permanent settlement in Nebraska is established at Bellevue. Missouri Lieutenant Governor William Ashley places an ad for fur traders for the new Rocky Mountain Trading Company. government began moving the “ Five Civilized Tribes” of southeast America ( Cherokee, Creek, Seminole, Choctaw, and Chickasaw) to lands west of the Mississippi River.ġ822 – Mountain man James Bridger makes the first expedition into the Rocky Mountains. The Hudson Bay Company establishes Fort Vancouver in what will become Washington state.

įranciscan friars Escalante and Dominguez explore Utah.įort Vancouver, Washington by Gustave Sohon, 1850 ġ776 – Fort Tucson is established in Arizona.

Many settlers are killed, and the rest are driven south.ġ682 – The Spanish establish the first permanent settlement in Texas at Ysleta, near present-day El Paso.ġ685 – A short-lived French colony is founded at Matagorda Bay, Texas.ġ692-94 – Diego de Vargas re-conquers New Mexico.ġ706 – Juan de Ulibarri claims Colorado for Spain.ġ743 – Louis-Joseph and Francois Verendrye explore South Dakota, seeking a water route to the Pacific Ocean.ġ769 – The Spanish built Mission Basilica San Diego de Alcala, the first California mission. 1549 – Naval Officer Sir Francis Drake claims California for Britain.ġ598 – Juan de Onate establishes San Gabriel in New Mexico.ġ610 – Don Pedro de Peralta founds Santa Fe, New Mexico.ġ680 – Northern New Mexico Pueblo Indians, outraged by atrocities committed by Spanish explorers and colonists, resist in the Pueblo Revolt.

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