Question

general allotment act to accelerate that process.
how did policymakers hope the policy of assimilation would work?
a. indians would learn to live happily on reservations.
b. indians would die off once white hunters killed off all the buffalo.
c. indians and whites would become part of each others culture.
d. indians would blend into white culture after the buffalo died out.

Explanation:

The General Allotment Act (Dawes Act) was designed to force Indigenous peoples into adopting white American agricultural and cultural norms. By breaking up communal reservation land into individual plots and eliminating the buffalo (a core part of Indigenous subsistence and culture), policymakers aimed to pressure Indigenous peoples to abandon their traditional ways and integrate into white society. Options A, B, and C do not align with the explicit assimilation goals of the policy.

Answer:

D. Indians would blend into white culture after the buffalo died out.