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This act lessend traditional influences of Indian society by making land ownership private rather than shared. This act promised, but failed to deliver U.S citizenship to Natve Americans. The act took about two thirds of Indian land.
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∙ 8y agoIt was the beginning of the end of the true "African" natives owner's right of America. The beginning of the lies, to erase true "African" history. The defacing of a nation, etc.
It changed Native American culture drastically. Children were taken away from their parents and raised as whites in boarding schools. This meant that many of these children grew up never being able to speak their native language. Land was taken from Native Americans if whites wanted the land. The Native Americans were given land that no one wanted and often this land was unable to grow crops. Native Americans were no longer able to follow the buffalo or the ways of their ancestors. They were confined to reservations.
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∙ 11y agoThey were forced to leave their native land for desert-like reservations. They had to give up their standard of living and learn a new one. also the white settlers deceived them by giving them blankets infected with smallpox and other diseases. and so much more!
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∙ 13y agoit was intended to encourage Native Americans to give up their traditional way of life and become farmers. some agreed and some resisted.
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∙ 13y agoNative Americans lost much of the land that they had before the Dawes Act.
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∙ 12y agolost their traditional cultural practices
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Lost their traditional culture practices
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An effect of the Dawes act was that American Indians?
Lost their traditional cultural practices
What is the Dawes Act and what was the purpose on American Indians?
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.
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?
dawes act.
The dawes severalty act was supposed to?
The Dawes Act was passed in 1887 and it tried to dissolve Indian tribes by redistributing the land. It was designed to forestall growing Indian poverty, but it resulted in many Indians losing their land to speculators.
Who passed the Dawes Act?
President Grover Cleavland passed the Dawes Act in 1887
Effect of the Dawes Act was that American Indians?
Lost their traditional cultural practices
An effect of the Dawes act was that American Indians?
Lost their traditional cultural practices
An effect of the Dawes act that American Indians?
Lost their traditional cultural practices
Who did the Dawes act apply to?
Indians in the great plains...savages...hated Indians
Why did the assimilation of the Dawes act failed?
cause the indians didntlike it
How did the Dawes act the way Indians were treated?
They were now treated as individuals
Where was the dawes act created?
The Dawes Act was created in Massachusetts. The Dawes Act, adopted by Congress in 1887, authorized the President of the United States to survey Indian tribal land and divide the land into allotments for individual Indians. The Act was named for its sponsor, Senator Henry L. Dawes of Massachusetts. The Dawes Act was amended in 1891 and again in 1906 by the Burke Act. The stated objective of the Dawes Act was to stimulate assimilation of Indians into American society. Individual ownership of land was seen as an essential step. The act also provided that the government would purchase Indian land excess to that needed for allotment and open it up for settlement by non-Indians.
Similarities and differences of the homestead act and the dawes act?
The homestead act allow applicant to not hold land of up to 160 acres while the Dawes act was away for some Indians to be US citizens.
How did the Dawes act Chang the way Indians were treated?
They were now treated as individuals
How did the Dawes Act change the way the Indians were treated?
They were now treated as individuals
What was the goal of Dawes general allotment act?
to assimilate Indians into white culture
What was the effect of the dawes acts?
The Dawes Act impacted on self-governance, unity and culture of Native American tribes.
