How did the Dawes Severalty Act try to "civilize" the Indians?
A) by turning them into landowning ranchers and farmers
B) by making public education compulsory on reservations
C) by threatening to exterminate Indians if they refused to adopt white culture
D) by sending Christian missionaries to convert Indians
E) by arranging for their children to be fostered out to white families

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The Dawes Severalty Act aimed to assimilate Native Americans into American society by allotting them individual plots of land for farming or ranching, thereby encouraging them to adopt a sedentary, agrarian lifestyle similar to that of white Americans.

How Did the Dawes Severalty Act Try to "Civilize" the Indians