WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
AMERICAN INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT IN THE GILDED AGE
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Indians (Native Americans)
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Immigrants
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Chinese
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Settlers
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -The Dawes Act established a system for land allotment and the Dawes Commission negotiated with the “Five Civilized Tribes”-Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek (Muscogee), and Seminole-to cede tribal titles of Indian lands so they could be divided into individually owned lots.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Dawes Act of 1887 (also known as the General Allotment Act or the Dawes Severalty Act of 1887) regulated land rights on tribal territories within the United States.
Detailed explanation-4: -They resisted the law by engaging in a millenarian movement called the Ghost Dance. Indians would sing and dance for days and envision a world without whites where they could practice their traditional customs and the buffalo had returned. The Dawes Act failed to assimilate many Indians.