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The General Allotment Act, also known as the Dawes Act, provided that the head of each Indian family was to be allotted a 160-acre farm out of reservation lands. If the new land owner abandoned tribal practices and adopted 'habits of civilized life', they would be granted American citizenship. Surplus reservation land would be sold to white settlers. This caused the Indians to lose approximately 90-million acres of land.

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There were several laws of this type. They fell under the category of the Homestead Acts . The first of the acts was the Homestead Act of 1862.

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