RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
THE INDIAN WARS STRUGGLE BETWEEN NATIVE AMERICANS AND SETTLERS
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Indians lost their most valuable resource
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trains could travel more safely
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more settlers could move to the Great Plains
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national parks were established
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Detailed explanation-1: -The destruction of the bison had two important consequences: It left the vast grasslands open to the herds of cattle moving north from Texas. Now cattle ranches appeared in the north. More importantly, though, it robbed the Plains Tribes of the one resource that allowed them to move across the plains.
Detailed explanation-2: -The devastation of the buffalo population signaled the end of the Indian Wars, and Native Americans were pushed into reservations.
Detailed explanation-3: -The decline of the buffalo is largely a nineteenth-century story. The size of the herds was affected by predation (by humans and wolves), disease, fires, climate, competition from horses, the market, and other factors. Fires often swept the grasslands, sometimes maiming and killing buffaloes.
Detailed explanation-4: -It was hunted regularly for its materials – yet the tribes never hunted more than they needed for survival. The near extinction of this unique animal put strain on Plains tribes to relocate away from their ancestral grounds toward less occupied areas and eventually contributed to their relocation to Indian reserves.