Impact on Indigenous peoples
What Impact on Indigenous peoples means in History GCSE, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
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Railroads, the cattle industry and gold prospecting severely disrupted the traditional ways of life of Indigenous peoples on the Plains.
The Plains Indians' way of life was destroyed by the railroads dividing buffalo herds and bringing more settlers.
Topics that use Impact on Indigenous peoples
- Option P3: Key topic 2: Development of the Plains, c1862–c1876 - 1 The development of settlement in the West (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
- Option P3: Key topic 2: Development of the Plains, c1862–c1876 - 3 Changes in the ways of life of Indigenous peoples of the Plains (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
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