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President Ulysses S Grant Addie Braswell Streuter/Weinhold English/History 1 March 2024 Can an amazing army general also be an amazing president? Ulysses S. Grant was the president from 1869-1877. Ulysses S. Grant grew up in Point Pleasant, Ohio. Grant went to college at the Military Academy at West Point to become an army general. Lincoln appointed Ulysses S. Grant to be the General-in-Chief in March 1864. The Civil War ended because of Grant’s hard work and how he never gave up. Grant helped lead the Union Armies to victory over the Confederacy in the Civil War. Grant was determined to fight every chance he got so the North could win the Civil War. Grant had a huge impact on the war because he served as an amazing general. As an American …show more content…

Grant, the Eighteenth president of the United States, changed America by signing The Fifteenth Amendment and because of his Native American policy. When Grant became the President, he wanted to make a change to the economy of our country and make it equal for everyone. In Grant’s inaugural address, Grant said, “It seems to me very desirable that this question should be settled now, and I entertain the hope and express the desire that it may be by the ratification of The Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution.” This was after the Civil War. President Grant's First Inaugural Address went with the theme of his campaign: "Let Us Have Peace." Grant called for an end to hostility, voting rights for African American men, and better relations with Native Americans (Ulysses S Grant First Inaugural Address 1869). Other people who helped lead to the Fifteenth Amendment being ratified and signed. One person was William Stewart, who was a member of the Senate Committee. He helped guide the Fifteenth Amendment through the Senate. It was ratified on February 3, 1870, The Fifteenth Amendment prohibited states from excluding voters on account of race, color, or previous condition of …show more content…

This legislation overturned "Black Codes" that had been established in the former Confederate states and had been used to keep African Americans in a near state of slavery. President Grant played an important role in what was the country's first civil rights movement in some ways. Reconstruction was very successful when trying to reunite a very divided country (A Short Overview). In the South, however, Black people voted. In some states like Louisiana, Mississippi, and South Carolina, the African American electorate was a bigger number than its white counterpart. This happened because, in 1867, Congress passed the Reconstruction Act. The new laws established, above other things, conditions for the former Confederate states to return to the Union. The most important thing was that the states had to draft new constitutions that guaranteed suffrage to citizens regardless of their race (A Short Overview). Grant signed The Fifteenth Amendment because he wanted all men to be equal and that is what he fought for in the Civil War, just because the war ended did not mean the African Americans still had the same rights, he wanted to give them more

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