USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Dawes Act (sometimes called the Dawes Severalty Act or General Allotment Act), passed in 1887 under President Grover Cleveland, allowed the federal government to break up tribal lands.

Detailed explanation-2: -The most important motivation for the Dawes Act was Anglo-American hunger for Indian lands. The act provided that after the government had doled out land allotments to the Indians, the sizeable remainder of the reservation properties would be opened for sale to whites.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Dawes Act, or General Allotment Act of 1887, was a law that allowed the U.S. government to take Native American tribal lands and divide them into 40 acre lots for individual Native Americans.

Detailed explanation-4: -Which of the following best characterizes the end result of the Dawes Act of 1887? The act dramatically reduced Native American land holdings.

Detailed explanation-5: -Dawes General Allotment Act, also called Dawes Severalty Act, (February 8, 1887), U.S. law providing for the distribution of Indian reservation land among individual Native Americans, with the aim of creating responsible farmers in the white man’s image. It was sponsored in several sessions of Congress by Sen.