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

question 22

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.

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