Legislation

__Native American Policy__

 * **Indian Intercourse acts** were several acts first passed July 22, 1790 that regulated commerce between American Indians and non-Indians + restricted travel by non-indians onto Indian land. The final act was passed on July 30, 1834 and specified what was Indian Territory or land west of the mississippi, but not in Arkansas, Louisiana or Missouri.
 * **Indian Removal Act of 1830** was a law that was signed on May 26, 1830 that would give money to the national government to finance treaties that would move Southern Indian tribes further westward.
 * //Cherokee Nation v. Georgia// was a case on December 20, 1831 in which John Marshall's court specified that Native Americans were special entities that had rights to the land in America and was independent from the U.S. and its state policies.
 * **Bureau of Indian Affairs** is an agency that was created in 1824 in order to watch over the lands that were formally under the control of Native Americans and to maintain a relationship between the U.S. and the Native Americans. Now it also provides education for many Native Americans.


 * **Nineteenth Amendment-** Constitutional amendment in 1920 as a result of suffragists crusading for political rights. Some feminists saw the victory as incomplete. They called for an equal rights amendment, but that didn't garner as much support as the 19th amendment.Crucial step.
 * **Eighteenth Amendment-** Passed in 1917, w/ the support of rural fundamentalists who opposed alcohol on moral+religious grounds. Passed in January 1920 as a constitutional amendment.


 * **The McCarran Internal Security Act-** passed in 1950 by congress requiring all communist organizations to register with the government and to publish their records, and creating other restrictions on "subversive" activity.