On February 8, 1887, President Grover Cleveland signed the General Allotment Act into law. The law, commonly known as the Dawes Act after Senator Henry L. Dawes of Massachusetts who proposed it, divided tribal lands of Native Americans into individual allotments and encouraged the assimilation of Native Americans into American society.

When Grover Cleveland became President in 1885, he was the first Democrat to occupy the White House since James Buchanan was elected just prior to the Civil War. ... Women's Rights. Cleveland was mostly silent on the issue of women's suffrage. He understood the value of women's clubs and political organizations in drumming up the vote of ...

The civil rights movement, once a controversial left-wing fringe, has grown deeply embedded into the fabric of our national story. This is a salutary development, but a problematic one for conservatives, who are the direct political descendants of (and, in the case of some of the older members of the movement, the exact same people as) the ...

The 1888 United States presidential election was the 26th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 6, 1888. Republican nominee Benjamin Harrison, a former Senator from Indiana, defeated incumbent Democratic President Grover Cleveland of New York.It was the third of five U.S. presidential elections (and second within 12 years) in which the winner did not win …

The United States presidential election of 1876 was one of the most disputed presidential elections in American history. Samuel J. Tilden of New York outpolled Ohio's Rutherford B. Hayes in the popular vote, and had 184 electoral votes to Hayes' 165, with 20 votes uncounted.

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The framers of the Constitution were in uncharted territory when they created the office of the presidency. No one at that time, including the framers themselves, had a clear vision of what the president of a national republic would do and only the vaguest notion existed when George Washington took the oath in 1789.

Feb 09, 2010 · The American Civil War began on April 12, 1861, when Confederate shore batteries under General Pierre G.T. Beauregard opened fire on Union-held Fort Sumter in South Carolina’s Charleston Harbor ...

This was the final House vote on the Civil Rights Act of 1964. There was an earlier House vote on the original House bill, prior to a Senate amendment. ... Cleveland, James: Yea: IL 10 th R Collier, Harold: Yea: MA 1 ... Grover, James: Yea: CA 10 th