Ulysses Grant
Civil War general
Ulysses S.
Grant was the eighteenth president of the United States and commanding general of Union forces during the Civil War.
His acceptance of Robert E.
Lee's surrender at Appomattox in 1865 effectively ended the war.
Grant's name has become shorthand for determined, grinding persistence: He has the Ulysses Grant approach to problem-solving—just keep pushing forward.
Elected leader of nation
- inaugurationFormal beginning ceremony
- administrationOrganizational oversight and control
- cabinetEnclosed storage furniture
- RepublicanGOP party member
election · White House · executive · legislation · veto · scandals · Black Friday · patronage
Widespread, not specialized
- commanderPerson with authority over others
- AppomattoxWar-ending Virginia town
- VicksburgCivil War siege site
- ShilohTennessee battlefield, 1862
Petersburg · unconditional surrender · siege · strategy · tactics · battlefield · cavalry · infantry
Biblical Tyrian king
- OhioMidwestern state, major river
- West PointU.S. Army academy
- memoirsWritten personal history
- cancerUncontrolled cell proliferation disease
Mark Twain · bankruptcy · tomb · cigar · horses · tanner · Galena · humble origins
Prohibited race-based voting denial
- freedmenPeople released from slavery
- civil rightsGuaranteed individual legal protections
- Ku Klux KlanWhite supremacist hate organization
- Freedmen's BureauPost-Civil War relief agency
scalawags · carpetbaggers · Radical Republicans · reconciliation · sharecropping · enfranchisement · integration · South
president
Elected leader of nation
- inaugurationFormal beginning ceremony
- administrationOrganizational oversight and control
- cabinetEnclosed storage furniture
Republican · election · White House · executive · legislation · veto · scandals · Black Friday · patronage · spoils system
general
Widespread, not specialized
- commanderPerson with authority over others
- AppomattoxWar-ending Virginia town
- VicksburgCivil War siege site
Shiloh · Petersburg · unconditional surrender · siege · strategy · tactics · battlefield · cavalry · infantry · artillery
Hiram
Biblical Tyrian king
- OhioMidwestern state, major river
- West PointU.S. Army academy
- memoirsWritten personal history
Mark Twain · cancer · bankruptcy · tomb · cigar · horses · tanner · Galena · humble origins · alcoholism
Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibited race-based voting denial
- freedmenPeople released from slavery
- civil rightsGuaranteed individual legal protections
- Ku Klux KlanWhite supremacist hate organization
Freedmen's Bureau · scalawags · carpetbaggers · Radical Republicans · reconciliation · sharecropping · enfranchisement · integration · South · occupation
- U.S. GeneralsEisenhower, Patton, MacArthur, Lee, Sherman
- Civil War FiguresRobert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, Jefferson Davis, Abraham Lincoln, William Sherman
- 1800s AmericaOregon Trail, Trail of Tears, transcontinental railroad, Civil War, Abraham Lincoln
- 1860sAbraham Lincoln, American Civil War, Appomattox, Confederacy, Confederate States
- PresidentsAbraham Lincoln, Andrew Jackson, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Donald Trump
- 19th Century LeadersLincoln, Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Jackson, Napoleon III, Victoria
Ulysses GrantRobert E. Lee
Jefferson Davis · Stonewall Jackson · Confederate generals · secessionists · secessionist
Ulysses GrantRobert E. Lee
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