Dawes Act
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Dawes Act
A federal law intended to turn Native Americans into farmers and landowners by providing cooperating families with 160 acres of reservation land for farming or 320 acres for grazing.
Transcontinental Railroad
A train route across the United States, finished in 1869.
Assimilation
The process by which a person or persons acquire the social and psychological characteristics of a group
Subsidy
a parliamentary grant to the sovereign for state needs.
Reservation
the action of reserving something.
Homesteader
the owner or holder of....