March 1, 1790: The Census Act

On April 19, 1866, the US Congress passed the first ever Civil Rights Act. It gave black Americans the right to own their own property, to have legal protection in business, and to take people to court. The act was also the first time that black Americans were called citizens of the United States. This meant that black Americans would have the same rights and privileges as all other US citizens. Another Civil Rights Act was passed in 1875. This act made it illegal to discriminate on the basis of race in public places, such as restaurants. In 1883, the Supreme Court ruled that the 1875 act was unconstitutional on the basis that businesses had the right to choose which customers they served and which they could ignore. This allowed businesses that provided public facilities to choose to exclude black people. On June 1, 1909, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was formed. It became the most important civil rights organization fighting for the rights of black people in the United States. It is still active today and has a membership of about half a million. On May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court passed a judgment that changed the course of civil rights in the United States. In the case of Brown v. the Board of Education, the judges on the Supreme Court declared that racial segregation in education was unconstitutional and therefore against the law. This decision overturned the Plessy v. Ferguson case of 1896. Shortly after noon on Monday May 17,

There has been much documentation on the plight of Native Americans throughout the beginnings of this nation. In spite of the attempts by the early government of the United States, the culture of many Native American tribes has survived and even flourished. The Dawes Severalty Act of 1887 is just one of many examples of how our government attempted to wipe out Native American culture. This paper will discuss the Dawes Act, particularly the time leading up to the act, the act itself, and finally its failure. By understanding the past failures in the treatment of a particular race of people, the government can learn how to protect the rights of all people, especially in a day and age of cultural diversity.

The United States of America is a nation that is structured by the Constitution. The Constitution is fundamental principles that was established by our founding fathers. Our society constantly refers back to the Constitution in order to justify certain actions, regulate societies, and create laws. During the early periods of American history we see that the Constitution disregards African Americans and Native Americans. It does little to address controversial issues that hindered many different ethnic groups from progression.

In recent history, many Americans have had a growing concern for the immigration (both legal and illegal) growth in our country. While the United States of America was settled by European immigrants, the unprecedented growth the late 1800s saw, led to reform on the immigration policy, which once was nonexistent. Based on conditions floods of immigrants caused in the cities of the country, the immigration reform was needed. Not only were the lives of immigrants negatively impacted in the United States, but so were previously settled Americans.

On March 26, 1790 a law was passed by the name of, Naturalization Act of the United States. It always makes me think, where would we be today if that law did not pass. The naturalization act of 1790 provided the first rules to be followed by all of the United States in the granting of national citizenship. After many different ethnic groups such as Latino Americans, Native Americans and Asian Americans came to the United States it really raised a question. How did this law change how the groups are identified and their differences? Latino Americans, Native Americans and Asian Americans have differences in many ways but also have similarities. There 's many different unique contexts used in separating these groups and how labor legislation was used. The year 1970 is often known to be the largest turning point in the history of US immigration. The law limited naturalization to immigrants who were "free white persons" of "good moral character". That being said, The Naturalization act of The United States who granted citizenship to immigrants that faced many barriers are restrictions to the American Law and the many cultural difference caused many challenges throughout the journey process after the Naturalization Act was a success for many groups.

In the 1930 census, the United States Government distinguished the differences in whiteness by asking participants to

When the Stamp Act of 1765 was passed in the Thirteen Colonies, the colonists were compelled to rethink their loyalty and standing with the British monarchy. The Stamp Act would be the first actual tax levied upon the colonists, which caused outrage in the Thirteen Colonies. The act would place a tax on any document and printed paper that they used: such as legal documents, newspapers, and licenses. All thirteen colonies did not agree that the tax was passed with legality and refused to acknowledge that such tax existed. They would all band together to ensure that the Stamp Act would be repealed and would become nonexistent.

If you were dragged out of your home just because someone wanted it for themselves, would you understand that to be beneficial and for your own good? In 1830, Congress passed the Indian Removal Act of 1830 believing that by evacuating the natives from their genealogical lands would not only benefit them, but the indians as well. Despite Congress’s policy of assimilation or peaceful removal, Andrew Jackson described it to be best for the indians to leave the lands that America claimed to be theirs even though he once thought of the Indians as sovereign nation. The Indian Removal Act of 1830 was not beneficial for the native americans because some of the tribes were falsely represented in signing their removal treaties., they were treated harshly

The Kentucky resolutions were drafted sometime between July and October of 1798 by Thomas Jefferson. The resolutions were passed later that year by the Kentucky legislature in response to the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798. There are about nine different resolutions, which primarily describe how Jefferson argued the fact that individual states have the right to assess the validity of the laws passed by the general government.

The Sherman (related to preventing one company from becoming too powerful) Act 1890, the purpose of the act was to destroy (companies with too much power) that were using their power to harm (community of people/all good people in the world); and (one company that controls too much) is someone that has total control over a clearly stated/particular company). In the 1800s there were a many amount of businesses growing in the United States. The U.S was making people pay for products (that are bought and sold) or services they gave/given at high price that put pressure on people because some people didn't have the money to pay for everything other people have. The congress passed the act in 1890 it was the first to be passed. The Act had to go

In the 1930 census, the United States Government distinguished the differences in whiteness by asking participants to write down

The population was doubling every 20 years. The largest cities in the 1790 census (in order) were Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Charleston, and Baltimore.

The Great Reform Act passed in 1832 was brought in due to a number of inside and outside pressures. For example, the fall of the Tories and the economic crisis of 1829-30. Britain pre 1832 was known as one of the most unrepresentative countries. English counties elected 82 MPs-only men who owned property worth over 40 shillings a year could elect these MPs (only the ruling classes.)Boroughs or towns elected 394 MPs-most voters were in southern England therefore new industrial cities such as Birmingham & Manchester had no MPs to represent them. There were rotten boroughs and pocket boroughs- corruption and bribery. In some areas there was no competition about who to elect the local

These early forms of the census, that did not take into account diverse populations, are a large part of the information that we have from that time.

The main issue is one that affected most of Society in the early 20th century.The main issue stemmed from outcry at The Great Reform Act 1832 which was introduced to amend the representation of the people in England and Wales. Before the 1832 Reform Act most men and all women did not have the vote. This act created a wider franchise but used the term ‘male person’, specifically excluding women. Alternative acts helped to enfranchise new sections of society and gave most men the vote, leaving sex the principal ground for disqualification. As a result, debates about ‘fitness’ for citizenship and the vote, which had previously centred around wealth, property ownership and education, now revolved around questions of gender. It was that women, did not have the right to vote for the men that were in power creating laws and such which they had to follow. The laws and aspects of society which they were made to follow without any say in the creation of them were things such as taxes. Women were denied the vote for many reasons, most being justified by men. Most men and some women at the time, against women gaining the vote believed in Conservatism, they thought that the way the laws were, had been the same for many years, and they saw no need to change something that ‘worked’ for ‘the benefit’ of ‘all’ those in society at the time. it was also a widespread belief that women should remain in the home and take care of their ‘natural duties’, such as cleaning, cooking, etc. Women at