To continue with, Fredrickson’s second topic covers One-Way Assimilation. Ethnic groups were forced to act, look, and speak a certain way in order to blend in with the American culture, this also became known as the melting pot theory. Settlers and military men who fought Indians believed they were up for extinction, rather than killing them off “The assimilationists adopted Policies designed to force Indians to conform to Euro-American cultural norms” (Fredrickson 569). This caused Indian reservations to be broken up, Indian children were forced to attend boarding schools where they weren't allowed to speak their language, cut off their hair, and act and look like white people in every possible way that they could. The primary goal wasn't
