Which was a negative outcome of the dawes severalty act? a. american indians acquired very large tracts of land that they could not reach easily, so it went unused. b american indians were forced to overhunt the land, depleting the bison population. c the wild west shows found a loophole within the act that enabled them to buy huge tracts of land. d the railroads and speculators took the best land and left little fertile land for american indians.

Which statement in the passage best reflects sumer's opinion of the dred scott decision? a."i speak what cannot be denied." b."[the] judgment was sustained by a falsification of history." b."the opinion was more thoroughly abominable than anything history." i speak what cannot be denied when i declare that the opinion of the chief justice in the case of dred scott was more thoroughly abominable than anything of the kind in the history of courts. judicial baseness reached its lowest point on that occasion. you have not forgotten that terrible decision where a most unrighteous judgment was sustained by a falsification of history. -charles sumner, 1865