Sexual practices of homosexuals were prohibited and punished in all states of the USA with fines and, often, with jail. Illinois was the first state that, in the context of a recast of the Criminal Code, revoked the sodomy law in 1962. After the emergence of the gay movement, several other states followed in the 1970s: Connecticut (1971), Colorado, Oregon ( 1972), Delaware, Hawaii (1973), Massachusetts, Ohio (1974), New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Dakota (1975), California, Maine, Washington, West Virginia (1976), Indiana, South Dakota, Vermont, Wyoming (1977), Iowa, Nebraska (1978) and New Jersey (1979). It was almost always the legislature that revoked the laws; Only in Massachusetts was the change made by a decision of the Supreme Court of the United States.
<span>I believe that the
correct answer is (b). As the tribe divided over voluntary removal, Elias
Boudinot and John Ridge became the two Cherokee leaders of opposite viewpoints.
Boudinot considered that the removal was inevitable and signed the Treaty of New
Echota in 1835 with other treaty supporters. On the other hand, the chief of
Cherokee nation, John Ridge, tried to stop white political leaders from forcing
them to move; he was backed by the majority. Their resistance resulted in the "Trail
of Tears" (Nu na da ul tsun yi (the place where they cried)) in which
one-fourth of the Cherokee forced to move died.</span>
