Nebraska College Preparatory Academy

 

Date of this Version

2020

Document Type

Article

Citation

Capstone Project Poster Presentation, College Preparatory Academy, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Spring 2020

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Copyright (c) 2020 by the author.

Abstract

This poster will discuss the largest mass execution in U.S. history. Thirty-eight Dakota men were executed on December 26, 1862, in Mankato, Minnesota. Plus two for the two Dakota men who were hung the next day. This execution was the end of the Dakota War of 1862. All of which was under the decision of Abraham Lincoln.

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