Question

What was one provision of the Dawes Act of 1887?
to stop American Indians from buying land
to stop American Indians from resisting assimilation
to divide and distribute land to American Indians
to divide and distribute land to white settlers

Answer 1

to divide and distribute land to American Indians

(The Dawes Act broke up tribal communal lands into individual allotments for American Indian families—part of an effort to force assimilation; surplus land was opened to non‑Native settlers.)