The Nineteenth-Century Practice of Placing American Indians on Reservations Was

The nineteenth-century practice of placing American Indians on reservations was partially designed to

A) integrate Indians with white society.
B) create sovereign nations within U.S. territory so that Indians could negotiate with other nations.
C) allow Indians to develop to a point where they would not need to assimilate into white society.
D) allow them to develop to a point where they could assimilate into white society.
E) None of these answers is correct.