Question

Which statement BEST describes the Sand Creek Massacre?

A) Sioux warriors destroyed General Custer’s forces in 1876.
B) 35 miners were killed by Apache Indians during the Gold Rush of 1849.
C) 17 African-American males were killed in a race riot in Oklahoma in 1912.
D) Roughly 200 Cheyenne men, women, and children were slaughtered by American soldiers.

Answer 1

D) roughly 200 Cheyenne men, women, and children were slaughtered by American soldiers

Answer 2

The correct answer is D) roughly 200 Cheyenne men, women, and children were slaughtered by American Soldiers.

The statement that best describes the Sand Creek Massacre is "roughly 200 Cheyenne men, women, and children were slaughtered by American Soldiers."

The Sand Creek Massacre occurred on November 29, 1864. A group of Cheyenne and Arapahoe Native American Indians was killed in Sand Creek, Colorado, by Colonel John Chivington and his men, a group called the Colorado Volunteers. These men brutally killed men, women, and children. So it is correct that the statement that best describes the Sand Creek Massacre is "roughly 200 Cheyenne men, women, and children were slaughtered by American Soldiers."