The lesson will focus on President Cleveland's second administration. Domestic issues and the role of the executive branch of government will be featured. See also the lesson plan for Grover Cleveland as 22nd president of the United States. Before Viewing American Presidents Tell students they will be taking notes on President Grover Cleveland's life in office during his second administration and thereafter. Instruct students to answer questions for their assigned study outline.
Students can use other print and electronic sources to complete all the questions.
Part 1 -Domestic Issues of Grover Cleveland's second administration 1. Define the word incumbent. Grover Cleveland withdrew from Senate consideration a treaty submitted by his predecessor, President Benjamin Harrison, to annex Hawaii. In 1894, Jacob Coxey organized a march on Washington to petition the government for relief for the unemployed in the wake of the depression of the early 1890's. The Sherman Anti-trust Act of 1890 was passed to regulate the trusts and destroy monopolies but was used in the Grover Cleveland administration against labor unions because capitalists viewed them as a restraint on trade.