to assimilate Indians into white culture
the Dawes General Allotment Act.
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The Dawes Act was created in Massachusetts. The Dawes Act, adopted by Congress in 1887, authorized the President of the United States to survey Indian tribal land and divide the land into allotments for individual Indians. The Act was named for its sponsor, Senator Henry L. Dawes of Massachusetts. The Dawes Act was amended in 1891 and again in 1906 by the Burke Act. The stated objective of the Dawes Act was to stimulate assimilation of Indians into American society. Individual ownership of land was seen as an essential step. The act also provided that the government would purchase Indian land excess to that needed for allotment and open it up for settlement by non-Indians.
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the Dawes General Allotment Act.
the Dawes General Allotment Act.
It gave Native Americans more land The Dawes General Allotment Act granted the Native Americans land allotments and citizenship.
It gave Native Americans more land The Dawes General Allotment Act granted the Native Americans land allotments and citizenship.
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The Act has another name, namely the General Allotment Act. It's an appropriate name too, since the Allotment act actually is about the allotment of land to the Native American tribes.
It granted 160-acre framsteads to Indiana families.
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What was a major goal of he Dawes act 1887
Also known as the General Allotment Act, this ended the practice of giving land parcels to whole tribes by giving the land instead to individual tribe members. This freed land in reservations, which was given to white settlers.
This act lessend traditional influences of Indian society by making land ownership private rather than shared. This act promised, but failed to deliver U.S citizenship to Natve Americans. The act took about two thirds of Indian land.
This act lessend traditional influences of Indian society by making land ownership private rather than shared. This act promised, but failed to deliver U.S citizenship to Natve Americans. The act took about two thirds of Indian land.