Which policy used assimilation schools to encourage Native Americans to abandon their culture?

• A. Dawes Act
• B. Assimilation
• C. Indian Removal
• D. Homestead Act

Answer: (B)

The main idea here is how policies aimed to absorb Indigenous peoples into Euro-American culture, often using schooling as a tool. Assimilation through schools meant removing Native children from their communities and teaching them to reject Indigenous languages, traditions, and ways of life in favor of Euro-American norms. Boarding schools were central to this approach, with the goal of replacing Indigenous identities with a mainstream American identity. That makes the policy described the use of assimilation schools to push Native Americans to abandon their culture.

The other policies had different aims: one focused on dividing tribal lands into individual allotments, another on forcibly moving people away from their traditional homelands, and the last on encouraging settlers to claim land. None center on using schools to erase Native culture in the same way, so the assimilation policy is the one that fits the description.