Ulysses S. Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant ; April 27, 1822 – July 23, 1885) was an American soldier and politician who served as the 18th president of the United States from 1869 to 1877. Before his presidency, Grant led the Union Army as Commanding General of the United States Army in winning the American Civil War.As president, Grant was an effective civil rights executive who worked with …
Ulysses S . Grant was sworn in as the 18 th President of the United States on March 4, 1869. At the time of his inauguration, the United States was several years removed from the end of the American Civil War. President Grant , however, was still wrestling with major questions about the country’ s future.
Grant, as commanding general, inherited the Indian Wars in the western frontiers, especially the Plains, as the United States continued westward expansion. After the Civil War ended in 1865, Grant turned his attention to the neglected American western frontier.
Spring 1876 – George Armstrong Custer and the Seventh Cavalry begin to forcibly place the Lakota Sioux onto reservations. Sitting Bull organizes the greatest gathering of Indians on the northern plains. May 15, 1876 – President Ulysses S . Grant issued an executive order creating the Cabazon Reservation for the Cahuilla Indians.Prior to the order, the Cahuilla moved many times due to …
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The effects of the late civil strife have been to free the slave and make him a citizen. Yet he is not possessed of the civil rights which citizenship should carry with it. This is wrong, and should be corrected.
The question of suffrage is one which is likely to agitate the public so long as a portion of the citizens of the nation are excluded from its privileges in any State.
.. it is desirable that they should be approached calmly, without prejudice, hate, or sectional pride, remembering that the greatest good to the greatest number is the object to be attained.
Wars of extermination, engaged in by people pursuing commerce and all industrial pursuits, are expensive even against the weakest people, and are demoralizing and wicked.
Social equality is not a subject to be legislated upon, nor shall I ask that anything be done to advance the social status of the colored man, except to give him a fair chance to develop what there is good in him, give him access to the schools, and when he travels let him feel assured that his conduct will regulate the treatment and fare he will receive.
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