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| The Dawes Act |
The Dawes Act gave the President the power to split up Native American tribal land and give it to individual people. He was allowed to do this with any reservation land he deemed advantageous for farming and permitted the government to sell Native American land to American settlers. Also, the government was allowed to build railroads, highways, and other infrastructures through the reservation land. Plus, it increased the amount of assimilation of Native Americans into American culture.
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The Homestead Act of 1862 also divided up land
in the West to those seeking to farm. It permitted
the government to have control of the land
and American settlers in the West.
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