He is saying that no has been president (station) due to they just founded the county. That as the first president he must set the standard due to no one else has done this job, so he means he must find his own way on how to do things.
<span>The goal of the Dawes Act of 1887 regarding native americans indians was to divide up large amounts of Native lands and allocate it to individual Natives--in order to have the Natives "assimilate" more in the US. </span>
Because of the discovery of gold in San Francisco in 1848, many people began moving west to search for wealth and fame. The United States was discovering many things underground...gold, silver, and oil. These were some of the natural resources the United States had at the end of the 1800s.