The Dawes Act of 1887 (also known as the general allotment<span> Act or the Dawes </span>Severalty<span> Act of 1887), adopted by Congress in 1887, </span>authorized<span> the President of the United States to survey American Indian tribal land and divide it into </span>allotments<span> for individual Indians.</span>
Answer:The Europeans paid the Chinese in gold or silver because there wasn't anything else that the Europeans had that the Chinese wanted. The Europeans could not give the Chinese their wool or linen because the Chinese had silk.
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