WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
WESTWARD EXPANSION
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Rocky Mountains
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Detailed explanation-1: -Wounded Knee, located on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, was the site of two conflicts between Native Americans and representatives of the U.S. government, including the U.S. Army and, later, the FBI.
Detailed explanation-2: -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.
Detailed explanation-3: -Wounded Knee is, and continues to be, a significant place for American Indians because it is the location of the December 29, 1890 massacre of Chief Bigfoot’s band of Lakota by the US Seventh Cavalry. The band had left their reservation but decided to return; It was winter and they were starving.