Grover Cleveland (First Term) key acts timeline by Jordan Morris

March 4, 1885

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Grover Cleveland is first inaugurated on March 4th, 1885 in the United States Capitol. Grover is the next democratic president after James Buchanan.

November 25, 1885

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Not even a year into Grover's presidency, his vice president, Thomas A Hendrick passes away at 66 due to a heart attack

January 19, 1886

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Grover Cleveland signs the Presidential Succession act. This act outlines that in the absence of a president and vice president, the cabinet officers would succeed in the chronological order of when the cabinet was founded.

October 28, 1886

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Grover Cleveland dedicates the statue of liberty. This happened was in New York where the gift from France was celebrated.

February 8, 1887

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Grover signs the Dawes act. the Dawes act allowed division of Native American Tribal lands and reservation land.

October 8, 1888

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Grover Cleveland signed the Chinese Exclusion act. This act banned Chinese immigration for 10 years. This was the first law to ban immigration strictly for ethnicity.

November 6, 1888

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Grover Cleveland loses the presidential election to Benjamin Harrison.

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