1. COS Standard 1
Explain the transition of the US from an agrarian society to an industrial nation prior to WWI.

2. Evaluating the Dawes Act for its effect on tribal identity, land ownership, and assimilation of American Indians between Reconstruction and WWI.
Chapter 13 Section 3

3. Assimilation Some Americans supported the Native American cause
Helen Hunt Jackson, “”A Century of Dishonor”
Exposes government's many broken promises
Others supported the idea of Assimilation
A plan under which Native Americans would give up their beliefs and way of life and become part of the white culture
Children were taken from their families
Schools Established

4. Native Americans and land
Native Americans move
Americans need for land
Guns and horses.
Some Native Americans were nomads
Searched for food: Buffalo
Led to tribes trespassing on other tribes land
Native Americans had been promised payment for their suffering, but the American government never paid.

5. Native Americans and land continued
Native Americans felt slighted and fought back.
Fetterman’s Massacre
80 American soldiers
Sand Creek Massacre
150 women-children
Custer’s last stand
In an attempt to resolve Native American attacks against white settlers, the American government passed the Dawes Act.

6. Dawes Act 1887 assimilated into American society
Own land
Become citizens
Divided reservation land amongst individual native Americans
160 acres= head of household (married)
80 acres= unmarried adults
Remaining land= sold to white settlers and Native Americans would get the sell money

7. Problems for Native Americans
By 1932, whites owned two thirds of the land that was promised to the Native Americans
Native Americans never receive money
Native Americans had problems with…
Occupation: farmer or rancher
Allotments were too small to be profitable
Assimilating to American lifestyles/cultures
Mixture of all Native Americans