What Was the Aim of Carlisle, a Boarding School for Indians

question 123

Multiple Choice

What was the aim of Carlisle, a boarding school for Indians?

• A) to prepare them for reservation life
• B) to train them in the professional skills necessary to return to the reservations as doctors and teachers
• C) to convert them to Christianity so that they would become missionaries on the reservations
• D) to civilize the Indians, making them "American," as whites defined the term
• E) to prepare them to enlist in the U.S. military

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