Question

Identify the purpose of the following laws and commissions of federal government

Answer 1

Curtis Act: Breakup of Tribal Governments

Dawes Act: Divide Tribal Land into allotments.

Cherokee Commission: Negotiate with the Five Tribes about accepting individual allotments.

Answer 2

The correct answers are the following.

Negotiate with the Five Tribes about accepting individual allotments: Cherokee Commission.

To abolish tribal governments: the Curtis Act.

To divide tribal lands into individual allotments: Dawes Act.

President Benjamin Harrison created the Cherokee Commission to legally get territories that belonged to the Cherokee nation to be occupied by non-Indians. Of course, the Cherokee people did not accept this decision.

The Dawes Act of February 1887 allowed the President of the United States to split Native American Tribe's land into individual allotments to be used by the Heads of many Indian families. The Curtis Act of 1898 amended the Dawes Act and split tribal lands that belonged to the Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Seminole, and the Creek. They lost millions of acres.