Answer to Question #158480 in History for Nicole

Question

1a. Compare the way the land was used by each group, Indian farmers, Indian hunters, cowboys, and white farmers.

1b. What caused the demise of the first three ways of life?

Answer 1

a). When the American nation was being made, the various populations had various uses of land. The late eighteen hundred saw the White settlements expand in the Western part of the country. The original inhabitants the Indians hunters traditionally used the lands for hunting, while the White settlers ranched these lands for cultivation purposes aided by the Federal government which fought and won several wars with the Indian tribes. Even though the American Indians also did farm, their slash-and-burn techniques of torching and clearing their new fields exhausted the soils. Consequently, the Native Americans domesticated tomatoes, potatoes, and corn. The last group of American land users were the cowboys who originated from Mexico, they created a feud over land ownership, and whenever they settled, they used barbed wire to partition their lands where they established ranches 

to raise their cattle and other livestock.

b). The arrival of the Settlers and the U.S. army to the Western Frontier signaled the end of the lifestyle of the Indian Hunters, Indian farmers, and the Cowboys. The implication led to the coming of the railroad which commenced this destruction, alongside mining, and the killing of thousands of buffalo. Even the treaties that were made could not protect the native Indians from the settlers.