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How could the federal government have made the Dawes Act more successful?

a. by refusing to allow Native Americans to assimilate
b. by making it illegal for Native Americans to sell their land to speculators
c. by providing larger land parcels so the Native Americans could grow more crops
d. by using land speculators as brokers between the government and Native Americans

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Answer:

It is NOT "C"

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"HistoryGuy" doesn't know what he's talking about here. I don't know the correct answer, but it is NOT "C".

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One way in which the federal government could have made the Dawes Act more successful was "c. by providing larger land parcels so the Native Americans could grow more crops," since otherwise the Natives had no way of carrying out their crop-based economies.
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