Which statement correctly evaluates how U.S. settlers in the 1870s-1880s chose to exploit the Texas Pains after capturing them from Indigenous nations?

A. They hunted bison the same as the Indigenous nations they displaced.

B. They replaced bison hunting with raising cattle.

C. They replaced bison hunting with crop farming.

D. They gave up bison hunting to drill for oil.

1 answer

B. They replaced bison hunting with raising cattle.