Question

name three ways western expansion impacted the plain indians. your answer two ways they reacted to it. your answer one major consequence of their resistance.* your answer

Explanation:

1. Impact on Plain Indians: Loss of land as settlers took over their territories for farming and ranching; disruption of traditional buffalo - hunting lifestyle due to over - hunting by settlers; introduction of diseases like smallpox which decimated their populations.
2. Reactions: Some tribes engaged in armed resistance, such as the Sioux in the Great Sioux War; others tried to adapt by learning farming techniques or living on reservations.
3. Consequence of resistance: Forced removal to reservations, which often had poor living conditions and restricted their freedom.

Answer:

1. Loss of land, disruption of buffalo - hunting, introduction of diseases.
2. Armed resistance, adaptation (learning farming/living on reservations).
3. Forced removal to reservations.