Linking Verbs. Linking Verbs are verbs that express a state of being. They are called linking verbs because they link the subject of the sentence to a word or phrase in the predicate that renames or describes the subject (tells us more about the subject's state of being). Examples of Linking Verbs:
Dawes Act of 1887 An 1887 law terminating tribal ownership of land and allotting some parcels of land to individual Indians with the remainder of the land left open for white settlement. It included provisions for Indian education and eventual citizenship.
The General Allotment Act, known as the Dawes Act for its creator, Sen. Henry Dawes, attempted to integrate Native Americans into U.S. society by breaking Indian land into 'allotments' and destroying the tribal structure of Native life.ne of the starkest examples of this is in the Dawes Act of 1877. The General Allotment Act of 1877, known commonly as the Dawes Act, was introduced by Henry Dawes, a Senator from Massachusetts.