WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
AMERICAN INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT IN THE GILDED AGE
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President Grant commended his courage and brilliance by awarding him Medal of Honor.
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Wild West shows portrayed him and troops fighting courageously against enemy force
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He wrote a best-selling novel detailing how he prevented Confederate troops from capturing forts.
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His victory ended organized American Indian resistance to westward movement of white settlers.
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Detailed explanation-1: -George Armstrong Custer (1839-1876) became famous for his starring role in the disastrous Battle of the Little Bighorn-falsely ennobled as “Custer’s Last Stand"-but the military commander lived a colorful early life and rose to fame as a Union general in the American Civil War.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Battle of the Little Bighorn, also called Custer’s Last Stand, marked the most decisive Native American victory and the worst U.S. Army defeat in the long Plains Indian War. The demise of Custer and his men outraged many white Americans and confirmed their image of the Indians as wild and bloodthirsty.
Detailed explanation-3: -Which of the following best explains why the Battle of Little Bighorn is sometimes referred to as “Custer’s Last Stand"? The Battle of Little Bighorn resulted in the death of General Custer and all two hundred of his troops.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Battle of the Little Bighorn happened because the Second Treaty of Fort Laramie, in which the U.S. government guaranteed to the Lakota and Dakota (Yankton) as well as the Arapaho exclusive possession of the Dakota Territory west of the Missouri River, had been broken.