USA CITIZENSHIP TEST
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was the first major battle of the west
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was also known as Custer’s Last Stand
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was the last major battle of the west
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none of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Wounded Knee Massacre, (December 29, 1890), the slaughter of approximately 150–300 Lakota Indians by United States Army troops in the area of Wounded Knee Creek in southwestern South Dakota. The massacre was the climax of the U.S. Army’s late 19th-century efforts to repress the Plains Indians.
Detailed explanation-2: -On December 29, 1890, in one of the final chapters of America’s long Indian wars, the U.S. Cavalry kills 146 Sioux at Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota.
Detailed explanation-3: -On a cold day in December 1890, U.S. soldiers surrounded and slaughtered about 300 Lakota men, women, and children at Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota. Although the soldiers were celebrated at the time, Wounded Knee is now remembered as a terrible atrocity.