Question

From the 1880s to the New Deal, the dominant United States government policy toward American Indians was to try to strengthen tribal authority Answer A: strengthen tribal authority A relocate all tribes to Oklahoma Answer B: relocate all tribes to Oklahoma B encourage migration to Canada Answer C: encourage migration to Canada C preserve native languages and customs Answer D: preserve native languages and customs D assimilate them into White culture

Answer 1

The correct answer to this open question is the following.

It seems that your question is missing one option, and it happens to be the correct one. It's option E).

So the correct answer is option E) breakup tribal landholdings.

From the 1880s to the New Deal, the dominant United States government policy toward American Indians was to break up tribal landholdings.

One of the best examples was the Indian Removal Act. Andrew Jackson encouraged westward expansion and settlement by supporting the Indian Removal Act.

On May 28, 1830, United States President Andrew Jackson signed the famous Indian Removal Act that supported the westward expansion and invited many Americans to settle territories in the west. These were territories west of the Mississippi, and the President could grant lands in exchange for Native American Indian tribes' lands that already existed within the known US territory.

So this act gave powers to the US President to negotiate the removal of the Native Indians to other territories. The President wanted to support white settling to farm the lands and make them productive.