President Grant: Civil War Hero Faces Battles of Politics

gold. Grant refused to give them a firm promise.

amounts of money.

sent American warships to the Dominican Republic. He wanted to keep Baez in power until the treaty was completed.

power.  Many failed to be re-elected to state office. They were being defeated by candidates of the Democratic Party. Democrats did not want blacks to have any rights at all.

elections. Their campaigns often were led by members of the Ku Klux Klan.

mainly of blacks and radical whites.

stay in power in the south.

election of eighteen seventy-two.