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Pages
on the Peace Policy and the Dawes Severalty Act to Use with the Reading Method
Quiz Question about the
“Peace Policy” and the Tips Provided to Help You Read Efficiently
Quiz Question about the Dawes
Severalty Act and the Tips Provided to Help You Read Efficiently
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For how
to use the method, see the Power Point Video.
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If you
need help reading my handwritten labels, just ask.
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Page 414
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Page 415
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Page 416
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Page 447
– Will need to scan these in the next days.
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Page 460
Grant's "peace policy" toward Native Americans
relied most heavily on
a. introducing them to Christianity.
b. teaching them to be farmers.
c. herding them onto reservations.
d. providing government assistance
for their living needs.
e. leaving them to their own
devices.
Tip: The
textbook does not list the term peace policy in the index with the 4th
edition paperback. Look up Grant. In the entries for Grant, you will see Native Americans
and. Use the pages listed there.
Background from U.S. History I:
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Native
American tribes were tribal and communal. They owned land as a tribe, not
individuals. See Chapter 1, heading “The Struggle for Jamestown.” Look for the
content around the “legal concept of vacuum domicilium”
for how differently the English and the Native Americans interpreted ownership and
community.
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For how
much of the Native American lands were lost before the Civil War, see Chapter 9
and Map 9.2 Lands Ceded by Native Americans. It shows the lands lost in the
North and in the South (including the Cherokees) and how they are being forced
to the West.
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For the
reservations (areas set aside for tribes forced to move to the Great Plains) in
1875 and by 1900, see the map in your course for Part I for U.S. History I and
for Part A for U.S. History II.
The Dawes Act of 1887
a. attempted to divide reservations into single farms.
b. planned to use farm ownership to "civilize"
the Native Americans.
c. made more land available to whites.
d. all of the above.
Tip: The Dawes Act is also called the Dawes Severalty Act. The word severalty means to own as an individual, not at tribe. The land (160 acres, the number of acres used with the Homestead Act) went—theoretically—to individual Indians, not the tribe.
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