Conflicts on Texas Frontier

Infer from the image above what caused the decline in the buffalo population between 1870 and 1889?

• many buffalo started roaming east

• buffalo were being hunted which caused a decrease in the population

• a disease caused many buffalo to die

• Native Americans stopped breeding buffalo

What problem arose as settlers moved west onto the frontier?

• Texas settlers were moving into Native American territory, destroying the Native American way of life.

• Texas settlers wouldn’t share their crops with Native Americans.

• Native Americans offered to surrender land to the settlers.

• Texas settlers appreciated the cultural differences between them and Native Americans.

Quanah Parker refused to sign the Treaty of Medicine Lodge Creek, along with many other Native American chiefs.  What was the importance of the treaty and why would Parker refuse?

• Quanah Parker adopted western dress to show his tribe a different mind set that would ensure the survival of Comanche culture.

• Native Americans were jealous of Texas settlers.

• Quanah Parker refused to accept Anglo American culture.

• Texas settlers were racist against Native Americans.

Based on the image, which of the following answer choices best reflects the conflicts that occurred after the Civil War?

• the US Mexican War

• Reconstruction

• buffalo soldiers fought with the Native Americans

• Mexican conflict on the border

How did the United States Army utilize ‘Buffalo Soldiers’ during the West Texas Wars?

• The US Army instructed ‘Buffalo Soldiers’ to kill off the many herds of buffalo destroying the plains. 

• The ‘Buffalo Soldiers’ were the African American troops utilized to fight against the Native Americans that remained on the plains.

• The ‘Buffalo Soldiers’ guarded the supplies in the Native American reservations.

• The US Army asked the ‘Buffalo Soldiers’ to interpret between US Representatives and Native Americans.