WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
WESTWARD EXPANSION
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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: -The Wounded Knee Massacre marked the last major armed conflict between the United States and the Plains Indians.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Battle of Kelley Creek, also known as the Last Massacre, is often considered to be one of the last known massacres carried out between Native Americans and forces of the United States, and was a closing event to occur near the end of the American Indian warfare era.
Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -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.