WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
WESTWARD EXPANSION
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to force the settlers to get along with the Native Americans
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to permanently destroy the Native American customs
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to force the Native Americans to become more like the European Americans in the East
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to encourage the Native Americans to move to reservations
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Detailed explanation-1: -Americanization policies were based on the idea that when indigenous people learned customs and values of the United States, they would be able to merge tribal traditions with American culture and peacefully join the majority of the society.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Allotment and Assimilation Era built upon the goals of the Reservation Era by attempting to control and alter the customs and practices of Native Americans. The Bureau of Indian Affairs’ (BIA) Indian agents played large roles in the “re-socialization” of Native Americans into Anglo-American culture.
Detailed explanation-3: -Since there was no more Western territory to push them towards, the U.S. decided to remove Native Americans by assimilating them. In 1885, Commissioner of Indian Affairs Hiram Price explained the logic: “it is cheaper to give them education than to fight them.”
Detailed explanation-4: -The federal government aimed to assimilate Native Americans into mainstream US society by encouraging them towards farming and agriculture, which meant dividing tribal lands into individual plots. Only the Native Americans who accepted the division of tribal lands were allowed to become US citizens.