Question

What was the goal of assimilation?

For Native Americans to learn to read and write

For Native Americans to farm the land west of the Mississippi River

For Native Americans to teach the Europeans near their territories how to hunt and fish

For Native Americans to change their ways so they were more like people of European descent

Answer 1

The goal of these reformers was to use education as a tool to “assimilate” Indian tribes into the mainstream of the “American way of life,” a Protestant ideology of the mid-19th century. Indian people would be taught the importance of private property, material wealth and monogamous nuclear families.(D)