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The demand for resources and land in the West changed the life of the American

Indians, who continued to be displaced from their ancestral lands through a series of
treaties and government actions that included all of the following except:
O Homestead Acts
O Dawes Act
O Reconstruction
O Reservation system

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The Homestead Act encouraged western migration by providing settlers with 160 acres of land in exchange for a nominal filing fee. Among its provisions was a five-year requirement of continuous residence before receiving the title to the land and the settlers had to be, or in the process of becoming, U.S. citizens.Jul 22, 2019

The Dawes Act of 1887 regulated land rights on tribal territories within the United States. It authorized the President of the United States to subdivide Native American tribal communal landholdings into allotments for Native American heads of families and individuals
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