president grant

Uylsses S. Grant

In my opinion President Grant was a good president. One reason I say this is his comand in the Civil War. Under Grant's comand the Union Army was sucesfull in ending the Civil War. Grant along with the sucess of the CIvil War also the confederate nationalism and slavery, protected African American citzenship, and defeated the Ku
Klux Klan. In Grant's foreign policy he sought to increase American trade and influence while mainraing peace with the world. Dispite a split in the Republican Party in 1872 he was easily reelected. In Grant's second term as president the country's economy was devistated by the Panic in 1873. When Grant left the White House in 1877 alot of his reconstructive policies where being undone by the democrate.

Grant was a carrer soilder that graduated from the United States Military
Academy at West Point . He served in the Mexican-American War, and rejoined the
Union Army when the Civil War began in 1861. in 1862 Grant was promoted to major general and took control of Kentucky and most of Tennessee. Dispite setbacks in the
Battle of Shiloh he led Union force to victory earning a reputation as an aggresive commander. In 1863 Grant lead the Union Army to seize Vicksburg and seperate the
Confederate Army in two. Also in 1863 after the batle of Chattanooga President Lincoln promoted Grant to lieutnant general and the commander of all the UNion armies. Grant fought several bloody battles against Rober E. Lee ending in trapping Lee in Petersburg
Virgina. During the intrapmaent Grant ran several campaogns by general Sherman,
Sheridan, and Thomas finally breaking Lee's defences, brining the capture of Richmond in April of 1865. Grant was great military man in the fact he knew how to fight in wars and control his military threw great stragies.

Grant's foreign policy, led by Secretary of State Hamilton Fish, stettled the
Alabama Claimswith Britain and avoid war with Spain over the Virginius Affair, but his attempted annexation of the Domincain Republic faied. During the Panic of 1873
Grant's response to this gave some financial relief to New York bamking houses. In 1880
Grant tried and was unsuccesful in a third presidential term. Back then there was no set terms for presidents. After leaving office, Grant embrked on a two-year world tour that included many enthusiatic receptions. However, his memoirs writen as he was dying, were a critical and popular success, and his death prompted an outpouring of national mourning. until recently historians have ranked grant as nearly the wort president:
Grant's reputation was known by his defense of corrupt appointees and by his conservative deflationary policy during the Panicof 1873. While still below average, his reputation among scholars has signifcantly improved in recent years because of greater appreciation for his commitment to civil rights, ,oral courage in his prosecution of the Ku Klux Klan, and enforcement of voting right.

He used the army to build the Republican Party in the South, based on black voters, Northern newcomers ("Caepetbaggers:), and native Southern white suppoorters
("Scalewags"). As a result, African-Americans were repesented in the Congress for the first time in American history in 1870. Although there were some gain in the political and civil rights by African-Americans in the early 1870's, by the time Grant left office on
1877, Democrats in the South had regained control of the state governments, while most African-American lost their political power for nearly a century. Although Grant's
Native-American peace policy reduced Native-American violence and created the Board of Native-American Commissioners, conflict continued that culminated in the Battle of the Little Big Horn. In the long run, even his supporters agreed that his policies were unsuccessful. Grant's reputation fell as the economy plungedinto the United tates' first industrial depression, called the Panic of1873. In his second term, Grant had to respond to a series of Congressional investigationsinto financial corruption in the government, including bribery charges against two cabinet members.

Report By: Manny Lynch