This law allowed for the president to break up the current Indian reservation land into small areas to be given out to individuals according to a specific formula. The Indians were also required to become US citizens, and if they refused, they were not given land. The Dawes Severalty Act shrunk the amount of land occupied by American Indians by a great deal because of the specific amounts of land given to each person. All of the extra land was then sold to settlers and corporations. This event connects to Europe at the time because it shows that America was also becoming Imperialist to an extent. The US did not care at all about the Indians no matter how much they said that they did. They shoved them off of their own land and used it to make money by selling it to white settlers.
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