Which federal policy most directly reduced the size of the reservations shown after 1887?
- Acheck_circle
The Dawes Severalty Act, which broke up tribal lands into individual allotments and sold the 'surplus.'
- B
The Indian Reorganization Act, which expanded tribal sovereignty.
- C
The Homestead Act, which guaranteed reservation boundaries.
- D
The Treaty of Fort Laramie, which restored Sioux lands.
Explanation
The 1887 Dawes Act allotted 160-acre plots to individual Native heads of household and opened "surplus" reservation land to white settlement, transferring roughly two-thirds of Native lands by 1934.