Presidency Chart – Ulysses S. Grant (17th) (1869 - 1877)

Elections of 1868 and 1872

1868

 

 

1872

 

 

Major Items during Grant’s Presidency

15th Amendment (1869)

 

Force Bills (1870-71)/ Ku Klux Klan Act  

 

Amnesty Act of 1872

 

Civil Rights Act of 1875

 

 

The Failure of Reconstruction

 

 

 

First Transcontinental Railroad (May 10, 1869)

Panic of 1873

 

Corruption:

 

            Salary Grab Act

           

           Credit Mobilier Scandal

 

             Whiskey Ring

 

Relations with Indians

 

Sioux War of 1876-77

 

Movement West

 

Homesteading

 

 

 

The Mining Frontier

 

 

 

The Cattle Frontier

 

 

 

Settlement of California