Changes of way of life for the Indians - Development of the plains

Question 1

What did the treaty of fort Laramie say construction teams could do?

Answer 1

Could enter Indian lands, they did not realise the massive impact this would have on the buffalo

Question 2

What did governments begin to do to plains Indians rights to land along the rail road route? example

Answer 2

Extinguish it, for example the union pacific railroad went through Pawnee lands

Question 3

What did the Northern pacific railroad do? what did this lead to?

Answer 3

Went though vast Indian territories which led to the Great Sioux War

Question 4

What happened to the numbers of cattle and buffalo

Answer 4

As cattle numbers increased on the plain, buffalo numbers declined