USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Other factors including the military’s directive to destroy buffalo as a way to control American Indians, the introduction of diseases from cattle, drought, and competition from domestic livestock (horses, cattle, sheep) contributed to the reduction in bison numbers as well.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -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-4: -Which factor contributed the most to the destruction of the southern buffalo herds? Train loads of tourists killed buffalo purely for sport. which of the following sparked the sand creek massacre? Sioux Indian attacks on stagecoach lines.

Detailed explanation-5: -The devastation of the buffalo population signaled the end of the Indian Wars, and Native Americans were pushed into reservations.