The homestead act was a "law" more rule. and it gave any one the right to own land if they could live on it for a period of time without dieing.
it let settlers into native lands, you can imagein how that impacted native americans.
The reason the voting rights act of 1965 had to be passed is because people were treated unfairly and not allowed to vote simply because of skin color.
The act allowed people to vote regardless of the color of their skin. This would allow African Americans to vote as they were the mosr targeted group at the time by racism.
I think they supported France in order to expel Austria from Northern Italy