WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
AMERICAN INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT IN THE GILDED AGE
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it encouraged cooperative ownership among the Native Americans
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Native Indians to attack US forts
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forced assimilation of Native Americans
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Relocation of Natives across the Mississippi River
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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 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. Was this answer helpful?
Detailed explanation-3: -Pressured by reformers who wanted to “acclimatize” Native Americans to white culture, Congress passed the Dawes Severalty Act in 1887. 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.