Question

Under the Dawes Severalty Act of 1887, the United States broke up Native American reservations and gave Native American families homesteads to farm. Homesteaders were required to live on their land for twenty-five years and were required to give up their Native American traditions. At the end of the twenty-five years, the Native Americans would own the land and would become U.S. Citizens.

Answer 1

Answer: Native Americans lost much of the land that they had before the passage of the act.

Explanation: Forced to give up their traditional way of life, many Native Americans did not easily adapt to their new lives on homesteads. Also, much of the land given to the Native Americans was in deserts and was unsuitable for farming. After the reservations had been divided into homesteads and given to Native American families, the land that was left over was opened up to white settlers. As a result of this process, the Native Americans lost much of their territory.

Answer 2

the United States broke up Native American reservations and gave Native American families homesteads to farm.

Step-by-step explanation:

Dawes Severalty Act of 1887 was purposely made to ensure that Native American tribal lands were subdivided into appropriations for Native American heads of families and individuals.

Consequently, the rest available lands were declared surplus and made accessible for sale to the nonnatives or corporations such as those involved in Railroad construction.

The act was named after Senator Henry Dawes. Around 1934, this Act had made land owned by Native Americans to reduce from 138 million acres to 48 million acres.

Hence, it can be concluded that Under the Dawes Severalty Act of 1887, the United States broke up Native American reservations and gave Native American families homesteads to farm.