Essay
The Rise of Industrial America, 1877-1900
When in 1873 Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner entitled their co-authored novel The Gilded Age, they gave the late nineteenth century its popular name....
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Dawes Act
The Dawes Act, also known as the General Allotment Act, allowed Indian reservation land to be broken up into small allotments for sale to individual American Indians. The purpose of the act was to encourage Indians to become farmers, but the plots were too small to support families or to raise livestock.