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The Dawes Act was supposed to assimilate the Native Americans into the white culture by breaking up their reservations and giving them individual tracts of land.
Passage of the act let to Bleeding Kansas because it caused violence over the issue of slavery. The state was supposed to vote about slavery, and people tried to force neighbors to be pro or anti slavery.
The Fugitive Slave Act. It was so unpopular in the North that Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' as a direct protest against it.
there were many benefits the colonies were supposed to have. They were supposed to increase the nation's economic power
The purpose for the Embargo Act of 1807 was to ban trades between U.S. and other nation. It was a failure because it was a Financial Disaster for U.S. merchants