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Q: What act offered American citizenship to American Indians and 160 acres of land to each Indian family and 80 acres to unmarried Indian adults who were willing to leave their tribal reservations?
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Which of these acts offered American citizenship to American Indians, and 160 acres of land to each Indian family, and 80 acres to unmarried Indian adults who were willing to leave their tribal reserv?

dawes act


Which of these acts offered American citizenship to American Indians and 160 acres of land to each Indian family and 80 acres to unmarried Indian adults who were willing to leave their tribal reserve?

Dawes Act


What happened to many of the American Indians from the Mountain states?

They lived on reservations.


American Indians were forced to live on?

Yes they were forced to live on reservations. The Americans still made them move even after that.


Who wrote the Naturalization Act of 1790?

The Naturalization Law of 1790 provided the first rules to be followed by the United States in the granting of national citizenship. Major changes to the definition of citizenship were ratified in the nineteenth century following the American Civil War. The Fourteenth Amendment in 1868 granted citizenship to people born within the United States and subject to its jurisdiction regardless of their parents' race, citizenship, or place of birth, but it excluded Native American Indians living on reservations.


What policy of the society of American Indians eventually caused it to close down?

It supported the abolishment of reservations.


What happened when American Indians who agreed to go to reservations?

They got killed a week or less later.


What kind of land did they put Indians on in the 1860s?

In the 1860s American Indians were put on reservations because whites wanted the land the the Indians had been given previously. In general reservations were on land no one wanted. Then if it became valuable it was often taken away.


Which group was forced onto reservations it's members not becoming American citizens until 1924?

American Indians


Which of these acts American citizenship to American Indians and 160 acres of land to each to each Indian family?

Dawes Act.


Do Cheyenne Indians live on reservations?

yes the Cheyennes live a a reservations


How do paiute Indians live today?

They live on reservations. Reservations are places where the Indians now live, because the government kicked them off.