After the Civil War, the U.S. military was ordered to the American West to remove the Indians from large tracts of land and confine them to small reservations on land that was deemed worthless. Indian children were removed from their parents and sent to schools that tried to turn the Indian children into models of good U.S. citizens. While this practice may seem ethically wrong to us today, politicians knew that the demand of the U.S. population for more land could only be achieved if the smaller Indian population was made to accede to the wishes of the majority. This is an example of the application of: