Which statement describes the impact of the establishment of forts in the indian territory best? a. it led to the development of the open range cattle industry. b. it led to the development of the mining industry. c. it led to the encouragement of whites to migrate from the east coast to the indian territory. d. it led to the extermination of the buffalo.

C. It led to the encouragement of whites to migrate from the East Coast to the Indian Territory. When forts were established, Indians were banished from those lands and white people was able to settle. Every time Western lands were conquered, white people set forts in those lands to live in.

C.

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