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intended to help Indians, it had the opposite effect by giving tribal lands to individual Indians who often sold them and was intended to Assimilate the Indians in to American society by turning them into farmers.

• Homestead Act

• Chinese Exclusion Act

• Dawes Act

• Sherman Anti - Trust Act

prairie region of the central US

• Great Plains

• The West

• Ethnic Ghettos

• Urbanizaton

allowed farmers to occupy unsettled land to build homes and farms; any citizen could occupy 160 acres of government land & if improved the land to growing crops, after 5 years the homesteader would own the land

• Homestead Act

• Dawes Act

• Sherman Anti Trust Act

• Chinese Exclusion Act

a designation of land for Native Americans

• Reservation

• Dawes Act

• Homestead Act

• Great Plains

a train route across the United States finished in 1869 that helped SETTLE THE WEST

• Transcontinental Railroad

• Reservations

• Monopoly

• Labor Unions

The primary objective of the Dawes Act was to --

• promote cultural assimilation of American Indians

• turn American Indian reservations into corporate farmland

• end warfare between American Indians and the US military

• promote American Indian investment in private industry

Which of these is the best definition of an era?

• A period of time identified by political, economic, or social trends

• A series of various changes over many years

• A series of events unified by individual or organized protests

• A period of time lasting between 10 and 15 years

These photographs are of the same student at Carlisle Indian School during the late 19th Century.

Which world best explains the changes shown in these photographs?

• Immigration

• Assimilation

• Nullification

• Nativism