WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
WESTWARD EXPANSION
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To practice your traditional ways of life
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To blend in with the dominant culture
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To leave the United States and move to Canada or Mexico
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Apologize for the events that occurred at Little Bighorn
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Detailed explanation-1: -The process of assimilating involves taking on the traits of the dominant culture to such a degree that the assimilating group becomes socially indistinguishable from other members of the society. As such, assimilation is the most extreme form of acculturation.
Detailed explanation-2: -Definition. Assimilation is a much contested notion whereby on entering a new country immigrant groups are encouraged, through social and cultural practices and/or political machinations, to adopt the culture, values, and social behaviors of the host nation in order to benefit from full citizenship status.
Detailed explanation-3: -Many American leaders in the 1870s and 1880s thought that Indians should be encouraged or even forced to assimilate. That means they wanted Indians to leave their tribes and ways of life, and instead adopt American ways of life. (Assimilation means to blend into a different culture.)
Detailed explanation-4: -Children were forced to cut their hair, wear uniforms, speak English, perform manual labor, suffer corporal punishment, and offer Christian prayers. At boarding schools, children had to endure a new life without any family support.