Despite their welcome to serve in the Union Army, Native Americans were not recognized as U.S. citizens throughout the nineteenth century. A clause in the Fourteenth Amendment excluding Indians not taxed prevented Native American men from receiving the right to vote when African-American men gained suffrage in 1868.
Like a modern-day Frankenstein's castle on Massachusetts's rocky Atlantic shore, Abbadia Mare (Abbey by the Sea) served as both home and laboratory for prolific inventor John Hayes Hammond Jr. after it was completed in 1929.merica's only true palaceâas in, royalty resided hereâwas built from 1879 to 1882 by King Kalakua and Queen Kapi'olani. The goal was to enhance the prestige of modern Hawaii in a kind of Victorian-era keeping up with the Joneses.
Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site. The Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site is a historic house museum in Hyde Park, New York. It became a National Historic Landmark and started operation under the National Park Service in 1940. The mansion, known as Hyde Park, was the Gilded Age home of Frederick William Vanderbilt and his family from 1895 to 1938. The 54-room Vanderbilt mansion was designed by the architectural firm McKim, Mead & White. Designed and built between 1896 and 1899, the house is an example of the Beaux-Arts arc