SAT2美国历史：Ulysses S. Grant总统.

2017-08-06 作者： 172阅读

　　下面为大家整理的是关于Ulysses S. Grant总统的SAT2美国历史知识点，非常详细，大家在复习SAT2美国历史时可以进行参考。

　　格兰特是美国历史上第一位从美国军事院校（西点军校）毕业的军人总统。他在美国南北战争中屡建奇功，有“常胜将军”之称。

　　Ulysses S. Grant (1868-1876)

　　Fifteenth Amendment: blacks get vote

　　Tweed Scandal: a boss of city machine on immigrants with bribery, graft, fraud elections; exposed by Thomas Nast and Samuel Tilden

　　--City machine: party in city system that promised public service & system to citizens in exchange for their votes; also participate in corrupt affairs badly (that’s how they can get the system)

　　Credit Mobilier scandal: a pacific railroad company that announced inflated stock for more profit; vice president has bribery; Grant wanted to save him but failed

　　Whiskey Ring scandal: Grant’s private secretary that stole millions in excise-tax revenues

　　Jim Fisk and Jay Gould scandal: the speculator that wanted to raise gold price by bribing Treasury not to sell gold; Grant in the end ordered a big sale to counter them, but honest speculators suffered

　　Panic of 1873

　　Civil Rights Act of 1875: promise blacks equal access to public accommodations and ban racism in jury selection; lack enforcement and many was declared unconstitutional by Supreme Court

　　Enforcement Acts & Force Acts: allowing federal gov to use force against terrorist groups like KKK

　　Resumption Act

　　National Labor Union: the first national organization; wide membership, but not much minority

　　Knights of Labor: the second, with really wide scale regardless of skill, gender or race; perished b/c participating in too many violent strikes and discord between skilled and unskilled

　　Rutherford Hayes & James Garfield & Chester Arthur (1876-1884)

　　Stalwarts & Half-Breeds: two sections within Republic that fight for patronage; later when Hayes was president and propose civil service rorm, Half-Breeds supported him while Stalwarts oppose rorm; but when Arthur succeed presidency he also put forth rorm

　　Compromise of 1877: Hayes & Tilden draw in election, and Democrats let Hayes be president in exchange of withdrawing troops in south, patronage, Texas subsidy and Pacific Railroad

　　Garfield assassinated: by Charles Guiteau, a Stalwart, to let Half-Breed Garfield go and Stalwart Arthur on

　　Chinese Exclusion Act: made in 1882 and repealed by Truman

　　Civil Rights Cases

　　Pendleton Act: setting up Civil Service Commission to examine the quality of gov officers

　　Battle of Little Bighorn: Sioux tribe attacked and killed all Colonel George Custer’s troops; it’s the only victory they get bore driven away

　　Battle of Wounded Knee: the final try of resistance of Sioux Tribe

　　Dawes Severalty Act: taking away the reservation land Indians once own, selling them in return for money to civilize them

　　以上就是SAT2美国历史知识点中关于Ulysses S. Grant总统的介绍。这一段的历史对美国现在的生活方式的形成有重要的影响，大家可以根据这些知识点进行自己的备考。