Colorado History timeline 4th grade
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Updated: 8 Oct 2018
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Created byBrian Rasmussen
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o 1859 Jefferson Territory establishedo 1863- telegraph established linking Denver to the Easto 1929- The Great Depression- October 23, 1929, the New York stock market crashed. This caused factories to close and the slackening demand for food crushed many farmers. Hispanics were the hardest hit due to all of the temporary, migrant, and irrigation jobs drying up.o 1692- Diego de Vargas Zapata leads Spanish troops in and puts an end to the Pueblo revolt.o 1792 French frontiersman Pierre Vial arrives in Saint Louis from Santa Fe, blazing the Cimarron Trail branch of the Santa Fe Trailo 1803- James Monroe and Robert Livingston sign the Louisiana Purchase. This doubles the size of the United States and paves the way for westward expansion or “Manifest Destinyo 1806- Zebulon Pike attempts to climb Pikes Peak; explores the Arkansas river valley and is arrested by Spanish Cavalrymen in the Rocky Mountainso 1833- the first U.S. establishment in Colorado- Bent’s Forto 1848- the rest of the land of the future Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Nevada and Utah is transferred to the United States when Mexico signs the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo to end the Mexican-American Waro 1861- the Colorado Territory is establishedo 1862- Homestead act passedo 1876- Colorado attains statehood, July 1st- the Colorado State Constitution is approved by voterso 1919- the first radio transmitter and broadcasting facility set up in Colorado Springso 1920- flights started connecting large cities for airmail serviceo 1921- the Panic- a short but deep economic U.S. Depression impacting especially farmers and irrigatorsPeriods
o 1902-1908- Theodore Roosevelt establishes natural reserves, National Monuments, and National Parks in Coloradoo 1933-1940- FDR’s New Deal improved Colorado by building dams, roads and other projects by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Agricultural Adjustment Administration helped Colorado Farmerso 1861-1865- American Civil Waro 1860s-1880s- Railroads are established in Coloradoo 1917-1918- U.S. involved in World War Io 1880-1920- Colorado had a boom of Tuberculosis sanitariumso 1920-1930- Steel boomo 1916-1933- U.S. Prohibitiono 1929-1939: The Great Depression- October 23, 1929, the New York stock market crashed. This caused factories to close and the slackening demand for food crushed many farmers. Hispanics were the hardest hit due to all of the temporary, migrant, and irrigation jobs drying up.o 1930-1939- extreme droughts creating a huge Dust Bowl. Only 126 total inches of rain received during this decade. Winds blew shifting dunes of dust. Plagues of grasshoppers hit eastern Colorado. Brief, but intense storms caused major flooding and other ecological disasters.o 1930s- radio is the major form of entertainment in households in Colorado
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