Question

Which of the following policies broke up Indigenous land into allotments?(1 point)
Responses

the Major Crimes Act
the Major Crimes Act

the Dawes Act
the Dawes Act

the U.S. Constitution
the U.S. Constitution

the Indigenous boarding school policy of 1879

Answers

GPT-5 mini
the Dawes Act — (the General Allotment Act of 1887) which divided tribal communal lands into individual allotments and sold surplus to non‑Native buyers.