Why did the us develop the reservation for the native Americans?

Answer 1

the US developed a reservation system for Native Americans because when white men came they took their land and the Native Americans needed a place to go also the US was afraid they would do something to get back at them so they made a reservation system

Answer 2

Why Did The United States Set Up Reservations?

Because the European settlers of North America were to discriminative against the natives of the region, and unlike the Spanish settlers of the New Continent did not mix with the native races, pushing them into "their territories"

Answer 3

On the surface the reservation system was marketed as a way of keeping the American Indians safe and to give them a place of their own. However, the real reason was far more insidious. It was a calculated effort to destroy the Native American spirit, something the invaders could never quite do. The reservations were designed to ultimately eradicate the "Indian problem" They were located in the very worst of places. Lands the white man did not want. Tribes were relocated to regions they had no hope of adapting to.Tribes who came from mountainous dry lands were given land in the everglades., for instance. They died by the thousands. Tribes who had been enemies were placed on side by side reservations in hopes of them killing each other off. It was a way of conveniently "caging the savage" until they all died out.

Answer 4

They forced us onto reservations so they could control the "savages". Here we could be easily guarded or killed without the general public watching. Any uprising could be stopped. Some wanted to convert us to their way of living and thinking so the Indian problem would go away.

Answer 5

To make way for settlement by immigrants from other countries in great part based upon an arrogant sense of ethnic, cultural, religious and technological superiority. It was a land grab even if monies or goods were exchanged, or even if the "option" was given to become integrated into the expanding American society if one was willing to give up self-determination as a tribe. One might hope that at some time in the future if there is life on other planets that one advanced civilization would not invade and put humanity onto reservations as they expand their presence here on Earth.

Answer 6

The US government wanted the lands that the Native Americans lived on, so they rounded them up and forced them to live somewhere else - usually on barren land that they didn't want for the US.

Answer 7

European settlers wanted the land and it's resources (i.e. gold, lumber, soil...)

Answer 8

because they wanted the native american land for themselves