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☆☆☆☆☆The Dawes Act was an effort to make assimilation the government's official policy. The aim was to "Americanize" the Native Americans , cultivating in them the desire to own property and to farm.
a school set up for indian youths.
white settlers
Move them at all costs
Southerners who were for redemption wanted to return power to the white Democrats
Large mining companies succeeded by using machines to dig deeply for gold.
Cutting taxes for landowners
almost all of the animal
land belonged to everyone
whatever it took to win
Lost their traditional cultural practices
Large mining companies
All of the Above
leave the southern states immediantly
all of the above
They were used to working together in communities instead of as individual families.
Farmers used the invention of barbed wire to claim land
