Answer:
a. The Dawes Act was passed to make American Indians property owners and to open up more land for white settlers.
Explanation:
The Dawes Law, also known as the General Law of Allotment was a law passed in 1887 by the United States federal government to regulate indigenous lands. It allows the government to take certain collective ownership reserves and divide them into individually owned land. This law led to the creation of Rolls Dawes, which the government uses to conduct relatively complete accounting of the indigenous population in certain areas. The bill was explicitly designed to help assimilate the Indians to society.
The law was to help the Indians survive in the modern world and to protect them from white settlers trying to invade their lands. Unsurprisingly, however, modern historians describe it as mostly bad for the people affected. Dividing communal land into individual lots interrupted the traditional way of life that revolved around activities such as hunting. It is further argued that the law unfairly divided country and without taking into account the beneficiaries of social security.
