Question

The advertisement shows Indigenous land being offered to settlers.


The main goal behind such auctions was to

appease white settlers who felt entitled to the land.
give the growing white population room to expand west.
make money to build schools that promoted assimilation.
separate Indigenous people from the land they had lived on for generations.

Answer 1

The main goal behind such auctions was to **separate Indigenous people from the land they had lived on for generations**. These land auctions were part of broader policies aimed at dispossessing Indigenous peoples of their land and facilitating the expansion of settler populations into territories traditionally inhabited by Indigenous communities.