During the 1920s and 1930s, most ideas about "being modern" acknowledged that modernity implied:

the difference is that white collar worker performs skills like worker as a scientist or well blue collars do physical work and they do services like being a cook.

worcester v. georgia, legal case in which the u.s. supreme court on march 3, 1832, held (5–1) that the states did not have the right to impose regulations on native american land. andrew jackson refused to enforce the ruling, the decision form the basis for most subsequent indian law in the united states.