What Was the Aim of Boarding Schools for Indians

question 16

Multiple Choice

What was the aim of boarding schools 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.