WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
AMERICAN INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT IN THE GILDED AGE
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This 1887 law gave Indian families land to encourage individualism.
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Curtis Act
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Dawes Severalty Act
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Indian Citizenship Act
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Homestead Act
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Morrill Act
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Explanation:
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: -The Dawes Act of 1887 authorized the federal government to break up tribal lands by partitioning them into individual plots. Only those Native Americans who accepted the individual allotments were allowed to become US citizens.
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