C: it led to the withdrawal of many members in the North.
As far as I know I'm pretty sure they weren't free due to the laws around the time period
The conflict, fought between June and October 1877, stemmed from the refusal of several bands of the Nez Perce, dubbed "non-treaty Indians," to give up their ancestral lands in the Pacific Northwest and move to an Indian reservation in Idaho.
President Jefferson had doubts because he was unsure if the purchase of land without the agreement of the legislative branch was constitutional
