Henry M. Teller
Henry Moore Teller (May 23, 1830February 23, 1914) was an American politician from
Colorado, serving as a U.S. senator between 1876–1882 and 1885–1909, also serving as
Secretary of the Interior between 1882 and 1885. He strongly opposed the
Dawes Act, intended to break up communal Native American lands and force assimilation of the people, accurately stating that it was directed at forcing the Indians to give up their land so that it could be sold to white settlers. Among his most prominent achievements was authoring the
Teller Amendment which definitively stated that, following the
Spanish–American War, the United States would not annex Cuba, rather that the purpose of their involvement would be to help it gain independence from Spain.
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