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Wounded Knee Massacre Scene
- Two young Lakota sisters hide as US soldiers surround their camp and gunfire obliterates their village at Wounded Knee.
- Hundreds of Native Americans, including women and children, are killed in the massacre, ending a chapter of resistance.
Manifest Destiny Drove Displacement
- Manifest Destiny framed westward expansion as a national duty that justified displacing Native peoples.
- Policies like the Indian Removal Act and broken treaties forced indigenous removal and suffering.
Building The Transcontinental Railroad
- Chinese and Irish workers labored brutal hours to complete the transcontinental railroad at Promontory, Utah.
- Company bosses staged a ceremony with a golden spike while laborers who finished the work remained largely invisible.