Question

What problems did Ulycsses S. Grant face regarding the south?

Answer 1

In 1868 Ulysses Grant was elected US President. Grant was America's military hero in the Civil War. He led northern Union troops to victory over southern Confederate troops. Grant was hugely popular. But he was a general far better than politician. It wasn't long before he became in trouble as president in the battles of politics and government. Everything was promised at grant. He offered no new national programmes, as a presidential candidate. So, he did not have any new policies to implement as president. He had few congressional struggles, because he rarely asked Congress to do anything.

Radical members of the Republican Party controlled the majority of southern states after the Civil War. Radicals supported blacks rights to citizenship and voting rights. The socialists began to lose influence in the late 1860s. Many have failed to be re-elected to office in the state. They were being defeated by Democratic Party candidates. Democrats didn't want any rights for the blacks at all. Under the new law President Grant did not wait long to exercise his forces. He proclaimed military rule over a wide South Carolina field. Hundreds of citizens were arrested there. They were put to trial in federal courts. Juries consisted essentially of blacks and radical whites.

This kind of justice caused southerners to feel even bitterer towards the north. It upset a number of moderate Republican Party leaders, too. They said the federal government was not supposed to help radical Republicans remain in power in the south. Some of those moderate Republicans broke away from the radicals and President Grant. They called themselves Liberal Republicans, and formed a new faction. They held their own nominating presidential convention for the 1872 race.