Assimilation
What Assimilation means in History GCSE, as defined for OCR, Pearson Edexcel.
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The US government's overarching goal for reservation life, intending to force Plains Indians into white American society by making them farmers.
The aim of forcing Indigenous peoples to farm, undermining their traditional culture and tribal authority.
The extent to which refugees integrated into local communities over time, while others remained distinct.
Topics that use Assimilation
- Migration to Britain c.1000 to c.2010 (J410/08) - c.1500–1900 (OCR GCSE)
- Option P3: Key topic 2: Development of the Plains, c1862–c1876 - 3 Changes in the ways of life of Indigenous peoples of the Plains (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
- Option P3: Key topic 3: Later developments in the West, c1876–c1895 - 3 Indigenous peoples of the Plains: the destruction of their ways of life (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
Related terms
- Broken treaties
- Conflict
- Cultural destruction
- Cultural erosion
- East India Company
- Eastern European Jewish settlement and experience
- Environmental change
- Government policy
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