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: -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-3: -On February 4, 1887, both the Senate and House passed the Interstate Commerce Act, which applied the Constitution’s “Commerce Clause”-granting Congress the power “to Regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States”-to regulating railroad rates.

Detailed explanation-4: -Passed by Congress in 1887, the Dawes Act-formally known as the General Allotment Act-authorized the US government to survey and divide federal Indigenous reservations into private lots for individual tribal members.