When the United States entered World War I, the nation's armed forces consisted of about 200,000 volunteers. To address the manpower shortage, Congress passed the Selective Service Act in May 1917. The act authorized the President to increase...

By the 1820s, with the push to eliminate independent Indian tribes east of the Mississippi River, the foundations were being laid for U.S. Indian policy through the century and beyond. One of the major developments in this policy came about in a...

The Indian Removal Act, part of a U.S. government policy known as Indian Removal, was signed into law by President Andrew Jackson on May 28,...

BILL POOVEY, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 11-25-2006 Indians' forced removal studied -- Project will define Trail of Tears route By BILL POOVEY, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Date: 11-25-2006, Saturday Section: NEWS Edtion: All Editions CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — Standing...

In 2001 the Minister of Aboriginal Affairs, Robert Nault, announced that the government would be introducing legislation to overhaul the Indian Act. In anticipation of this legislation in February 2002, the House of Commons Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs began hearing from various...

A comparison of views regarding the Indian Removal Act of 1830. Was it an act of humanitarianism intended to save the Native American culture and populace from the expansion of white settlers, as Robert V. Remini has argued? Or was the act intended just to get rid of the Native Americans and destroy their tribal culture, as Antony F. C. Wallace has argued?