What were the final steps in the government’s Indian Policy of the late nineteenth century?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: The ideal answer should include:
1. Reformers argued against segregating Native Americans on reservations, urging instead that the nation assimilate them individually into white culture.
2. Congress stopped making treaties with Native American tribes.
3. Tribes lost many of their political and judicial functions, and the power of the chiefs was
weakened.
4. Educators trained young Native Americans to adjust to white culture in Native American
boarding schools, such as the Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania.
5. Students at Native American schools were taught how to fix machines and farm and were forced to abandon tribal culture, speak English, and assimilate into white culture norms.
6. The Dawes Severalty Act aimed to break up traditional Indian life and promote individual land ownership by dividing tribal land into small plots to be distributed among members of each tribe.
7. The final blow to tribal life was the virtual extermination of the buffalo as buffalo hunters killed millions of the animals for their valuable hides.
You might also like to view...
The Open Door Policy
a. was initiated by the German government. b. formally terminated the spheres of influence in China. c. increased Western control over tariffs and quotas within each sphere of influence. d. served to calm the increasingly frantic pace of Western imperialism in China. e. was initiated by the United States as an altruistic effort to preserve Chinese independence.
All EXCEPT which of the following ancient states ruled Egypt and one time or another?
a. Kush b. China c. Assyria d. Persia
Which one of the following was not one of the results of the California gold rush?
A) ?? Its population increased dramatically. B) ?? Slaves, free blacks, Indians, Chinese, and Anglos eagerly joined together in the gold fields. C) ?? The issue of slavery in the Mexican Cession was pushed to the forefront of national politics. D) ?? The sleepy town of Yerba Buena became a city of 50,000. E) ?? Minters from all over the world descended upon California.
Passage of the National Security Act in 1947 indicated that:
A) Truman no longer considered the Soviets a serious threat. B) the U.S. would be placed on a permanent high state of alert. C) Congress was unwilling to fund Cold War programs. D) thousands of dangerous subversives had been found in the government.