At the 1880 Republican National Convention in Chicago, Bruce became the first African American to win any votes for national office at a major party's nominating convention, winning 8 votes for vice president. The presidential nominee that year was James A. Garfield, who won election.
May 28, 1880 Herald of Kansas article (page 2) promoting the Blaine - Bruce ticket.
In 1881, Bruce was appointed by President Garfield to be the Register of the Treasury, becoming the first African American to have his signature featured on <span>U.S. paper currency</span>
The answer is D. the colonies wanted their independence
<span>English bill of rights laid foundation for</span> restarting the traditional rights of the English citizens in trial by jury and abolished the cruelty, fines, and unjust punishment.
The Dawes Act minimized the tribe's ability to live in their own traditional way and it ended joint ownership of the tribal land and distributed it up into pieces that were owned by individual Native Americans.
