Which was a negative outcome of the Dawes Severalty Act?
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it had a negative effect on the american indians, as it ended their comunal holding of property.
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President Grover Cleveland signed the Dawes Severalty Act in 1887. According to this act, the president had the right to survey tribal lands and can divide it into 160-acre pieces and distribute it individually to Native American families.
The Dawes Act had a negative effect on American Indians, as it ended their communal holding of property, by which they had ensured that everyone had a home and a place in the tribe. Land owned by Indians decreased from 138 million acres in 1887 to 48 million acres in 1934.
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