Flashcards for Dawes Act
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Causes of Indian Removal | Population growth in East
Availability of cheap and fertile land
Economic opportunities
"Manifest Destiny"
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Effects of Indian Removal | Native Americans forced off lands
Americans migrate West --> US spans across the entire country
California = Population "Boom"
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Dawes Act | 1887
Tried to end Native Americans’ [aimless] wandering and turn them into farmers
Each Native American male received 160 acres to farm
Schools = set up → to make “Native American
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Dawes Act Failure | Few Native Americans “took” to farming (how come?)
Sold land to dishonest whites, below true value
Federal agents replaced native leaders
Native Americans = forced to give up traditional [Buffalo] hunt methods and had to be responsible for supplies
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