RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Chinese Exclusion Act
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Homestead Act
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Dawes Act
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Indian Removal Act
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -Approved on February 8, 1887, “An Act to Provide for the Allotment of Lands in Severalty to Indians on the Various Reservations, ” known as the Dawes Act, emphasized severalty – the treatment of Native Americans as individuals rather than as members of tribes.
Detailed explanation-3: -The objective of the Dawes Act was to assimilate Native Americans into mainstream US society by annihilating their cultural and social traditions. As a result of the Dawes Act, over ninety million acres of tribal land were stripped from Native Americans and sold to non-natives.
Detailed explanation-4: -This act provided tribal members dual citizenship in their enrolled tribe and with the United States. The passage of the act was less of a recognition of Native Americans’ contributions to and place in American, but a last-ditch effort to erase Native culture.