Consequences of the Dawes Act

Question 1

Who was the measuring woman?

Answer 1

Alice Fletcher (took 4 years to divide up one reservation).

Question 1

When was the Dawes Act?

Answer 1

8th February 1887.

Question 2

How much land was given to Indians?

Answer 2

160 - Farmers
320 - Grazing land
80 - Single males

Question 3

What would happen after 50 years?

Answer 3

• The Indians would become citizens
• The Indians would earn the individual title of the land

Question 4

Who was president?

Answer 4

Chester Arthur

Question 5

What did Arthur say about the Dawes Act in 1881?

Answer 5

“The allotment system will have a direct and powerful influence in dissolving the tribal band, which is so prominent a feature of savage life, and which tends to strongly to perpetuate it.”

Question 6

Land not assigned to Native Americans?

Answer 6

‘excess’

Question 7

What can be used as an example of how assimilation failed?

Answer 7

Massacre at Wounded Knee (1890)

Question 8

Decrease in Native American population by 1865?

Answer 8

250,000 –> 100,000

Question 9

When was the Dawes Act amended?

Answer 9

1898

Question 10

What amended the Dawes Act?

Answer 10

Curtis Act

Question 11

What did the Curtis Act do?

Answer 11

Abolished the 5 civilised tribes’ communal land, government and tribal courts.

Question 12

What state entered the union in 1907 due to the Curtis Act?

Answer 12

Oklahoma