Question

Read the passage below. Then answer the question that follows using information and evidence from the text.

May 28, 1830

Chapter CXLVIII

An Act to provide for an exchange of lands with the Indians residing in any of the states or territories, and for their removal west of the river Mississippi.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That it shall and may be lawful for the President of the United States to cause so much of any territory belonging to the United States, west of the river Mississippi, not included in any state or organized territory, and to which the Indian title has been extinguished, as he may judge necessary, to be divided into a suitable number of districts, for the reception of such tribes or nations of Indians as may choose to exchange the lands where they now reside, and remove there; and to cause each of said districts to be so described by natural or artificial marks, as to be easily distinguished from every other ...

What is the main idea of this document?

A.The U.S. government agrees to buy lands from Native Americans.
B.The U.S. government agrees to sell lands to Native Americans.
C.The U.S. government sets aside lands as reservations for Native Americans.
D.The U.S. government sets aside lands for settlers who wish to move west.

Answer 1

The U.S. government sets aside lands as reservations for Native Americans.

Option C

Step-by-step explanation:

The idea of an Indian territory seems to be a predecessor to the British Indian Reservation, which was developed by the Royal Declaration of 1763, and which set aside land for the indigenous people.

The proclamation confined the European population to Crown estates east of the Appalachian Mountains. Towards the conclusion of the US war in Paris (1783), the region remained active, and land was ceded to the US. In the aftermath of the U.S. Rebellion, the British Government limited the Indian Reserves' area of land until the only lands west of the Mississippi river were included.

Most Native American tribes had established ties with the British who have been faithful to the British Empire during the American revolt, but had less established connections with the colonist insurgents of the Commonwealth.