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Glossary Term – Event
Enabling Act of 1889
The Enabling Act of 1889 allowed Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Washington to become states.
Glossary Term – Event
Wounded Knee
US troops slaughtered about 200 Sioux, many of whom were women and children, at Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota.
Glossary Term – Event
Second Battle of Wounded Knee
Members of the militant American Indian Movement staged an armed occupation of Wounded Knee, South Dakota, the site of a massacre of Lakota Indians at the hands of the US Army in 1890. The occupiers were led by Russell Means and Dennis Banks. They declared an independent Sioux nation and held the area for seventy-one days, surrendering after an AIM member was shot and killed by federal authorities.
Glossary Term – Person
Sitting Bull
Primary Source
Building Mount Rushmore, 1926
Teaching Resource
Woman Suffrage before 1920
Woman Suffrage by State/Territory and Year
Questions for Discussion
Which states gave women the vote first?
Why those particular states?