What was the government’s overall goal in passing the Indian Appropriations Acts?
to open land for white settlers
to open land for American Indians
to confine white settlers to certain areas
to give American Indians freedom to settle

To open the land for white settlers

A component of President Lincoln's plans for the postwar reconstruction of the South, this proclamation decreed that a state in rebellion against the U.S. federal government could be reintegrated into the Union when 10% of the 1860 vote count from that state had taken an oath of allegiance to the U.S.

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