Legislation


 * NorthWest Ordinances**- allowed the U.S. to expand into the northwest terriotories of America including the area south of the great lake nand the northwest of ohio
 * Judiciary Act of 1785**- gave supreme court judge the ability to commission laws
 * Native American Policies:**
 * **Removal Act**: apart of the US policy known as Indian Removal; signed into law by president Andrew Jackson on May 26,1830;strongly supportyed by the south, an act that gave the states acess to the lands inhibited by the five civilized tribes; moved the natives further west to give the lands to the whites
 * **//Worcester v. Georgia://** a us Supreme court case that vacated Samuel Worcester on the grounds that the Georgia criminal statue that prohibited non-indians from going onto indian lands without a state license was an unconstitutional act
 * **Cherokee Nation vs. Georgia:** a series of laws enacted by the state of georgia that stripped the Cherokee nation tribe of their rights under state law intending to force the indians out of the state;law ruled that the indians were not a US state therefor they were indpendent of the US and therefor the court did not have the "jurisdiction" in the case of the Indians
 * **Treaty of New Echota-**signed in January 1836 in New Echota Georgia, a treaty that established that the entire Cherokee nation was to move west toward the indian terriotry that led to the trail of tears; treaty was ratified in March of 1836
 * Indian Appropriations act of 1871-
 * Treaty of Hopewell- November 28,1785 a treaty between the U.S. and the [|Cherokee] (1785), [|Choctaw] and [|Chickasaw] (1786) indigenous nations that laid out a western boundary for white settlment