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Zorluk: ZorWestward Expansion and American Indians

"To bring them out of savagery into citizenship... we must make the Indian more intelligently selfish. This is the first step. The tribal system, which holds all property in common, kills individual ambition. We must give the Indian his own home, and his own pieces of land, and teach him to say 'This is mine, and I will defend it.'"
— Merrill E. Gates, President of the Board of Indian Commissioners, 1885

Which of the following historical developments in the late nineteenth century was the most direct consequence of the perspective expressed in the excerpt?

  1. A
    The immediate and universal extension of United States citizenship to all Native Americans under the Fourteenth Amendment.
  2. B
    The negotiation of new federal treaties that legally guaranteed the preservation of communal tribal lands.
  3. The passage of legislation that partitioned reservation territory into individual family farms.Cevap
  4. D
    A federal policy of laissez-faire detachment that left Native American communities to manage their own local economies without government intervention.

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The passage of legislation that partitioned reservation territory into individual family farms.
The correct answer is correct because it directly identifies the policy of allotment, codified in the Dawes Severalty Act of 1887, which sought to assimilate Native Americans by dividing reservation land into individual, privately owned plots, matching the speaker's call to end the communal tribal system.

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1
Analyze the author's argument and perspective in the provided source.
The author argues that communal tribal landholdings destroy individual ambition and prevent Native Americans from civilizing. He advocates for private property ownership as a key step toward citizenship.
Understanding the core argument of the source is essential for identifying the policy outcomes it supported.
2
Connect the source's ideas to late-nineteenth-century federal policies toward Native Americans.
The emphasis on individual land ownership and the destruction of the tribal communal system directly matches the intent of the Dawes Severalty Act of 1887, which authorized the President to subdivide Native American tribal landholdings into individual allotments.
Linking the historical document's ideology to specific legislative acts from the period reveals the direct policy consequences.
3
Evaluate the options to identify the correct consequence while eliminating historically inaccurate or misaligned distractors.
The passage of legislation that partitioned reservation territory into individual family farms directly aligns with the Dawes Act's provisions. Other options misinterpret the purpose of the Dawes Act, misapply the Fourteenth Amendment, or incorrectly assume a laissez-faire policy.
Systematic elimination ensures the selected choice is both historically accurate and directly supported by the stimulus.

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Federal assimilation policy and the Dawes Severalty Act of 1887.
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