<span> It consisted of laws admitting California as a free state, creating Utah and New Mexico territories with the question of slavery in each to be determined by popular sovereignty, settling a Texas-New Mexico boundary dispute in the former's favor, ending the slave trade in Washington, D.C., and making it easier for southerners to recover fugitive slaves.</span>
<span>Racism was deeply felt throughout the nation, and the civil rights gains of the Reconstruction period were rolled back by Jim Crow laws.</span>
The Dawes act was the government attempt in having natives assimilate into American society. They were stripped from their culture and beliefs. The land that once belonged to them was sold off to white settlers and they were given the option to become citizens only if they settled for the land that was offered to them. In a way yes it was successful because Indians were forced to assimilate.