WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
WESTWARD EXPANSION
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To hold or request a spot or item
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land set aside for Native American Tribes.
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to pause or hesitate about something
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To maintain or keep in good condition
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Detailed explanation-1: -A federal Indian reservation is an area of land reserved for a tribe or tribes under treaty or other agreement with the United States, executive order, or federal statute or administrative action as permanent tribal homelands, and where the federal government holds title to the land in trust on behalf of the tribe.
Detailed explanation-2: -Removal and settlement on reservations served two purposes for the United States. First, it cleared land of Native Americans for western expansion. Second, it permitted the United States to carry out a program of Americanizing Tribes into communities of small farmers.
Detailed explanation-3: -The term “reservation” comes from the early days of Indian contact with the white people. The Indians gave up large portions of their land through treaties “reserving” a portion of the land for their own use. Reservations are usually small parcels of land on which Indian people were supposed to live.
Detailed explanation-4: -Reservation is a system of affirmative action in India that provides historically disadvantaged groups representation in education, employment, government schemes, scholarships and politics.