-What Was the Primary Reason During the 1870s and 1880s

question 7

Multiple Choice

-What was the primary reason during the 1870s and 1880s for the staggering extermination of the buffalo, which reduced their population by nearly three million and resulted in massive piles of skulls sent to fertilizer plants?

• A) preventing disruption to incoming trains
• B) forcing the Plains Indians to become dependent on reservations
• C) supplying the East with fashionable buffalo robes
• D) organizing elaborate hunting parties for Eastern and European social elites

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