RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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to encourage European immigration to the West
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to strengthen Native American Indian traditions
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to assimilate Native American Indians into American society
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to remove the Cherokees from the southeastern United States
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Detailed explanation-1: -The goals of the Dawes Act of 1887 included breaking of the tribes as a social unit, encouraging individual initiatives, furthering the progress of native Farmers, securing the reservation land as the native land and opening the remainder of the land for the white sellers to profit.
Detailed explanation-2: -The federal government aimed to assimilate Native Americans into mainstream US society by encouraging them towards farming and agriculture, which meant dividing tribal lands into individual plots. Only the Native Americans who accepted the division of tribal lands were allowed to become US citizens.
Detailed explanation-3: -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.