WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
AMERICAN INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT IN THE GILDED AGE
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Provided a rationale for creation of Bureau of Indian Affairs
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Fostered congressional dialogue that led to passage of Indian Reorganization Act
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Represented culmination of US government’s military operations against native peoples.
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Prompted widespread public hostility toward Sioux Indians
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Detailed explanation-1: -The massacre at Wounded Knee, during which soldiers of the US Army 7th Cavalry Regiment indiscriminately slaughtered hundreds of Sioux men, women, and children, marked the definitive end of Indian resistance to the encroachments of white settlers.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -By taking Wounded Knee, The AIM leaders also hoped to force an investigation of other reservations, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and broken Indian treaties.
Detailed explanation-4: -This outbreak culminated in the Massacre at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, where the “ghost shirts” failed to protect the wearers, as promised by Wovoka. As conditions changed, the second Ghost Dance became obsolete, though it continued into the 20th century in attenuated form among a few tribes.