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

Elections of 1868 and 1872

1868

1872

Major Items during Grant’s Presidency

15^th 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