Westward expansion

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All of the following were effects of the government's policies on Native Americans EXCEPT: Native Americans were moved to reservations. Native Americans died from new diseases. Native Americans were stripped of their culture due to assimilation.

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Native Americans were paid well for their land.

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This act forced Native American tribes to give up their ancestral land holdings and move to reservation lands elsewhere.

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Dawes Act

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The Dawes Act...

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divided the plains Indians tribal lands into family plots as a way to encourage assimilation

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The American Indians were forced to leave their homelands because the government wanted

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to open American Indian lands for settlement by white settlers.

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process in which a minority group or culture is required to assume the values, behaviors, and beliefs of a dominant group

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forced assimilation

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___ was the belief that Americans should claim land from the east coast to the west coast of America.

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Manifest Destiny

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What was the effect of westward expansion on Native Americans?

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Many Native Americans were forced to move to reservations that were far from their ancestral lands.

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Which innovation allowed people and goods to travel from the East Coast to the West Coast in just a week?

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Transcontinental Railroad

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The Dawes Act broke up__________ and gave_________ of land to Native Americans.

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reservations; allotments

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What important animal was slaughtered by the U.S. Army and Anglo hunters as a way of defeating the Native Americans and forcing them to accept reservation life?

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buffalo