President Grover Cleveland

Federal Troops Crush Pullman Strike, Imprison Eugene Debs

1894-07-03 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 8/10

On July 3, 1894, President Grover Cleveland deployed federal troops to Chicago to crush the Pullman Strike, marking the first time the federal government used an injunction to break a labor action. The strike began on May 11 when Pullman Palace Car Company workers walked out after the company …

Eugene V. Debs American Railway Union President Grover Cleveland Attorney General Richard Olney Pullman Palace Car Company labor-suppression state-violence federal-intervention

Dawes Allotment Act Destroys Tribal Land Ownership, Facilitating Loss of 90 Million Acres to White Settlers

1887-02-08 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 10/10

President Grover Cleveland signs the Dawes General Allotment Act (also called the Dawes Severalty Act), authorizing the President to subdivide Native American tribal communal landholdings into individual allotments for Native American heads of families and individuals. The Act represents a …

Senator Henry L. Dawes U.S. Congress President Grover Cleveland Bureau of Indian Affairs Five Civilized Tribes indigenous-genocide land-theft forced-assimilation tribal-sovereignty institutional-corruption