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What did white reformers hope to achieve with the breakup of the reservations and with schools for Indian children?

What did white reformers hope to achieve with the breakup of the reservations and with schools for Indian children? Evaluating Primary Sources54 Chester A. Arthur to the Board of Indian Commissioners in 1884. For many years, he also presided over the Lake Mohonk conferences. In 1885, he pre- sented a paper to the Board of

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Evaluating Primary Sources: Saving the Indians in the Late Nineteenth Century

Evaluating Primary Sources: “Saving” the Indians in the Late Nineteenth Century Copyright 2014 Cengage Learning. All Rights Reserved. May not be copied, scanned, or duplicated, in whole or in part. Due to electronic rights, some third party content may be suppressed from the eBook and/or eChapter(s). Editorial Review has deemed that any suppressed content does

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Children at Work

Children at Work Industrial growth in the late nineteenth century had an impact on working children. Note what these sources reveal about the numbers of children work- ing full time and about the conditions under which they labored. 11 Gainful Workers by Age, 1870–1920 (In thousands of persons 10 years old and over) Age (in

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