Native Americans Gilded Age

Question 1

Positive- Dawes act 1887

Answer 1

Gave some NA opportunities to become landowners and full citizen, it wasn’t what they wanted (preserve culture)

Question 2

Positive- reservations

Answer 2

Gave opportunity to establish farming communities and provide opportunity for better health care. Made it easier for NA tribal customs to survive

Question 3

Positive- boarding schools

Answer 3

Gave NA opportunity to find better jobs. Some found employment working in Indian Agency Offices

Question 4

Positive- victory

Answer 4

Against Custer at Little Bighorn 1876 had convinced some the position of NA needed to improve

Question 5

Negative- assimilation

Answer 5

Lost independence

Question 6

Negative- reservations

Answer 6

Policy failed as BA lost freedom and denied Civil rights (amount of land reduced). Life there was harsh, land was of poor quality and many were u able to adopt

Question 7

Negative- dependence

Answer 7

Became dependent on gov subsidies, these were insufficient and often cut

Question 8

Negative- education

Answer 8

Eduction was poor and enabled them to get jobs which forced them back to reservations where there were seen as untrustworthy

Question 9

Negative- period ended

Answer 9

Fended with massacre of Sioux Tribe at Wounded Knee