What was the goal of assimilation? For Native Americans to learn to read and write For Native Americans to farm the land west of
the Mississippi River For Native Americans to teach the Europeans near their territories how to hunt and fish For Native Americans to change their ways so they were more like people of European descent
The goal of these reformers was to use education as a tool to “assimilate” Indian tribes into the mainstream of the “American way of life,” a Protestant ideology of the mid-19th century. Indian people would be taught the importance of private property, material wealth and monogamous nuclear families.(D)
the Articles of Confederation had been a loose confederation between the states leaving the central government more weak than the states. The Constitution helped created the need for a stronger central government
