How did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1871 formalize the government’s assimilation policy? Check all that apply. It stripped tribes of their rights as independent nations. It treated all American Indians as individuals. It enabled the United States to sign new treaties. It gave American Indians the right to pursue their traditions. It designated American Indians as wards of the government.

Although violent conflict had plagued relations between white settlers and Native Americans from the very beginning of European colonization of the New world, such violence increased in the mid-nineteenth century as American settlers moved ever further west across the continent. Most white Americans believed they could not live in peace with Native Americans, whom they regarded as “primitive.”

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democracy

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they usually pass federal laws

and sometimes in the elections of the president