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How did the US victory at Wounded Knee influence American control of the West?

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It represented the last major conflict between the US government and American Indians.

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Edmentum/Plato

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The Wounded Knee victory for the US (which many deem a massacre) opened a vast majority of territory for American settlement. The Native Americans in the area had been the only real impediment.
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