WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
WESTWARD EXPANSION
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Native populations increased.
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Native populations stayed the same.
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Native populations decreased.
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -When the bison were exterminated from North America, indigenous populations lost an inch of height in just a generation. (Inside Science)–In 1870, there were at least 10 million bison in the southern herd on the North American 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 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: -The bison were exterminated, in part, to create and maintain a dominant “cattle culture” across the Great Plains and the West-and, unfortunately for Native Peoples and wildlife-it worked. Even now, in the 21st century, many of the same forces are still in place.
Detailed explanation-5: -"Critical to their survival, bison not only provided American Indians with food, shelter and tools, but a model on how to live. To American Indians, bison also represent their spirit and remind them of how their lives were once lived, free and in harmony with nature.