Native American tribes had already been struggling for decades before the construction of a railroad began to be planned. However, the railroad was a catastrophic event for the Natives' way of life. The railroad forever altered the landscape of their traditional land, as well as caused the disappearance of wild game, such as bison. This was particularly destructive to the Plains people, who depended on the bison for nearly all of their needs.
The railroad also increased conflict between the Native people and the colonizers. It allowed white settlers to move to areas originally only inhabited by Native tribes, causing land disputes, deaths and displacement.
Introduction of the railroad in America towards the West brought the destruction in Native Americans ways of life. After the arrival of European in the New World Native Indians have been pushed out of their land. By the 1860s a large portion of land carried away from native Indians through treaties. The construction of the Transcontinental Railroad brought disrupt in their traditional hunting grounds. It permanently transforms the landscape in the Great plane with the disappearance of reliable wild game. Herds of Bison killed in large number for the railroad as well as for establishing ranches and farms. Native Indians depended on the bison for their meat, and skin for the cloth and shelter to keep them warm.
Washington served as a general and commander-in-chief of the colonial armies during the American Revolution, and later became the first president of the United States, serving from 1789 to 1797. He died on December 14, 1799, in Mount Vernon, Virginia.
