GRANT 



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GRANT 



OUTLINE AND QUESTIONS ON U. S. GRANT 



Outline 



I. Years of Preparation 



( 1 ) Birth and ancestry 

 ( 2 ) Education 

 ( 8 ) Service in Mexican War 

 (4) Unsuccessful attempts at farming and 

 at real-estate dealings 



II. War of Seces-sloii 



( 1 ) Early activities 



(2) "Unconditional Surrender" 



( 3 ) Ebb of his fortunes 



(4) The Vicksburg campaign 



( 5 ) Campaign for Richmond . 



III. His Administration 18G-1877 



( 1 ) Reconstruction 



(a) Fifteenth Amendment 



(b) Force Acts 



(c) Suppression of Ku-Klux Klan 



(d) Intervention in local elections 

 ( 2 ) Important legislation 



(a) Civil Service Act, 1871 



(b) Coinage Act, 1873 



(c) Inflation Bill 



(d) Resumption Act of 1875 



(3) Political corruption and financial dis- 



orders 



(a) Credit Mobilier 



(b) Whisky Ring 



(c) "Salary Grab" Act 



(d) Tweed Ring 



(e) Panic of 1873 



(4) Foreign affairs 



(a) Treaty of Washington 



(b) Alabama Claims settled 



(c) Virginius Massacre 



(d) Attempted annexation of Santo 



Domingo 



(5) Other important events 



(a) Election of 1872 



(b) Election of 1876 



(c) Indian risings 



(d) Chicago and Boston fires 



(e) Bell telephone patented 



(f) Union Pacific Railway completed 



(g) Centennial Exposition 



IV. I-ater Kvent* 



( 1 ) Trip around the world 

 ( 2 ) Business losses 



(3) Memoirs 



(4) Death 



Questions 



Give the origin of Grant's popular nickname. 



How much larger was Grant's salary in 1871 than it had been ten years eat 



What was the Ku-Klux Klan, and how did the administration deal with it? 



What is there in the last years of Grant which reminds you of the last yea 

 Sir Walter Scott? 



What interesting fact shows Grant's complete lack of interest in pol 



Name two extremely important inventions which were brought 1 

 lie during this administration. 



Why was Grant without a commission at the outbreak of the Wur 



When and why did he threaten to resign from the army? 



When did Grant's firmness prevent a possible break with a country wit 

 the United States did' go to war twenty-five years later? 



In what way would it have been better if Grant had not had such implu 

 in his friends? 



What was Grant's real name and why was he not known by it . 



What was the "salary grab," and how was it changed because ( 



proval? 



What famous saying of Grant shows the dominant trait in htt 

 To whom did he owe his continuance in the army despite various huh; 

 In what way did his early life differ from that of Lincoln or of Garfio 

 What was the chief significance of the battles around Chattanooga? 

 Mention one instance in which Grant used his veto power with good 



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