Around 1880 the U. S. Government developed a policy to obliterate the cultural heritage of Native Americans and to replace it with the values of Anglo-American society. The key strategy to accomplish this was
a. extermination through massacres, starvation and deliberate infections of disease.
b. to remove children from their tribal homes and families and place them in far-way boarding schools so that they did not see their families for several years.
c. government-supported missions on every reservation, required religious conversion to Christianity, and prohibitions against speaking native languages and engaging in cultural practices, rituals or traditions.
d. none of the above -- the federal government officials predicted that the Native Americans would voluntarily give up their native culture for the superior Anglo culture.
Question 2
Research cited by Aulette indicates that the group that is most ambivalent and sometimes negative about education for their children is the
a. Black middle class.
b. White middle class.
c. Black working class.
d. White working class.
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