The General Allotment Act of 1887 (Allotment Act) initiated the policy of Indian land allotment by authorizing the President to allocate plots of land on Indian Reservations, to Indian individuals and ...

Congress passed the General Allotment Act, which divided Native American reservation land into parcels, in 1887. The act was intended to weaken the tribal structure by encouraging the development ...

Cleveland signed the disastrous Dawes Act of 1887, which empowered the president to allot land within the reservations to individual Native Americans, with all surplus land reverting to the public ...

In 1887, Congress passed the Interstate Commerce Act, making the railroads the first industry subject to federal regulation. Legislators designed the law, which established a five-member ...