The 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee marked the end of which conflicts?

• A. The Indian Wars
• B. The Civil War
• C. The Mexican-American War
• D. The Revolutionary War

Answer: (A)

Wounded Knee marks the end of the Indian Wars. The massacre occurred in 1890 on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, where U.S. troops killed many Lakota people. This event is widely seen as the concluding chapter of a long-running series of armed conflicts between the United States and Native American tribes over land, sovereignty, and removal policies. After decades of battles, breaking treaties, and forced relocations as settlers moved west, the federal government had established greater control over the western frontier, and large-scale Native resistance largely ceased.

The other conflicts listed happened much earlier in American history: the Civil War ended in the 1860s, the Mexican-American War ended in 1848, and the Revolutionary War ended in the 1780s.