RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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return land to Native American Indian tribes
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hire Native American Indians as military scouts
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limit the power of the Indian tribes
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force Native American Indians to give up their traditional cultures
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Detailed explanation-1: -Also known as the General Allotment Act, the law authorized the President to break up reservation land, which was held in common by the members of a tribe, into small allotments to be parceled out to individuals. Thus, Native Americans registering on a tribal “roll” were granted allotments of reservation land.
Detailed explanation-2: -Subsequently, millions of acres of Indian land were transferred into the ownership of non-Indians. Between 1887 and the passage of the 1934 Indian Reorganization Act formally ending allotment, roughly 90, 000, 000 acres of land had been lost as a result of the Dawes Act.
Detailed explanation-3: -The 1887 Dawes Act was essentially the Homestead Act for Plains Indians. Each Plains Indian family was allotted 160-acre homesteads from their reservation land. Any leftover land was freed up for white settlers to buy.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Dawes Act outlawed tribal ownership of land and forced 160-acre homesteads into the hands of individual Indians and their families with the promise of future citizenship. The goal was to assimilate Native Americans into white culture as quickly as possible.