Legislation


 * Alien Sedition Acts
 * Huey Taft?
 * Fugitive Slave Act
 * 18th Amendment
 * THe New Frontier
 * Great Society
 * Louisiana Purchase
 * 15th amendments
 * League of Nation
 * Pure Food & Drug Act
 * United Nation
 * Dred Scott Decision
 * Espionage and Seditionary
 * Containment
 * 3/5 Compromise
 * Townsend Act
 * New Deal
 * 21th amendment
 * sherman anti-trust
 * interstate
 * gulf of Tonkin
 * compro

Native American Policies

 * Removal Act  of 1830 relocated Indian tribes west of the Mississippi to clear lands for white settlement
 * The Seminole War (1835- 1840) joined the forces of Indians and runaway black slaves to rebel against the whites Removal Act
 * Dowes Act  (Feb 8, 1887)-converted all Indian territory into individual land ownership. The purpose was to influence Indians with white cultures. This act increased landholding of Indians, but also reduced a lot of land because many of the land were opened to land sale for non-Indians.
 * Durke Act (1906)-designed to correct certain changes in Dowes act about land in Indian Reservation.
 * A new legislation was passed recently, modernizes and improves health care for American Indians and Alaska Natives, was included in the health insurance reform legislation that passed the House on March 21. President Obama signed the legislation into law on March 23.
 * [|H.R.680] : To direct the Secretary of Interior to convey certain land held in trust for the Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah to the City of Richfield, Utah, and for other purposes
 * I <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">ndian Trust Reform Act of 2005 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> -A bill to provide Indian trust, and management reform and resolution of historical accounts
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Native American Housing Enhancement Act of 2005 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> - Amends the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996 to prohibit the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development from restricting access to the housing grant amount for any Indian tribe
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">ndian Appropriations Act of 1871 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> -In 1871 Congress added a rider to the Indian Appropriations Act ending U.S. recognition of additional Native American tribes or independent nations, and prohibiting additional treaties
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Indian Intercourse Acts <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> was made to regulate commerce between Native Americans and non-Indians & restricting travel by non-Indians onto Indian land
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Indian Citizenship Act <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> of 1924, also known as the <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Snyder Act <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, was proposed by Representative[|Homer P. Snyder] (R) of New York and granted full U.S.[|citizenship] to America's indigenous peoples, called "Indians" in this Act
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Indian Intercourse Acts <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> was made to regulate commerce between Native Americans and non-Indians & restricting travel by non-Indians onto Indian land
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Indian Citizenship Act <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> of 1924, also known as the <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Snyder Act <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, was proposed by Representative[|Homer P. Snyder] (R) of New York and granted full U.S.[|citizenship] to America's indigenous peoples, called "Indians" in this Act