Impact of Reconstruction — Quiz

Question 5 • US History

Who was Ulysses S. Grant?

Answer

a member of the US Senate and the first African American politician to serve in Congress

the Confederate general who surrendered at the end of the Civil War and who was elected president in 1868

the Union general who was credited with winning the Civil War and who was elected president in 1868

a Democratic governor of New York and an unsuccessful presidential candidate in 1876

Explanation

Ulysses S. Grant was a leading Union general during the Civil War and later became president, winning the 1868 election. Robert E. Lee was the Confederate general who surrendered to Grant, so choice B describes Lee incorrectly as president.

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