Under the Dawes Act, the reservation land not allotted to American Indians was sold

to specific tribes as reservation land.
to American Indians who wanted more.
to white settlers and railroad companies.
to tribal chiefs to divide on their own.

Question

Under the Dawes Act, the reservation land not allotted to American Indians was sold

to specific tribes as reservation land.
to American Indians who wanted more.
to white settlers and railroad companies.
to tribal chiefs to divide on their own.

tjweeks101 · Answer

to white settlers and railroad companies

The idea of the Dawes Act was to move  the Natives away from their lands to, one, acquire the space for a railway, and, two, to assimilate them into white American culture. The Dawes Act gave each head of a family a parcel of land on which they must farm. The problem was that the Plains Natives did not know how to and did not want to farm.