Answer:
Promoted individual land ownership among American Indians
Step-by-step explanation:
According to the excerpt from President Rutherford B. Hayes, first annual message, he talks about Indians who have proof of having their own labor and are ready to detach themselves from their tribal relations should be given the benefit of the Homestead Act.
This Act means that any adult citizen who had not taken arms against the United States could be given 160 acres of land for development.