My sumptuous padlet by https://padlet.com/garrettlandress99/wdd326s68snq Made with charisma en-us 2016-11-02 11:48:35 UTC 2023-10-14 00:51:39 UTC hello@padlet.com Ulysses S. Grant garrettlandress99 https://padlet.com/garrettlandress99/wdd326s68snq/wish/134725689 2016-11-02 11:49:53 UTC https://padlet.com/garrettlandress99/wdd326s68snq/wish/134725689 Background garrettlandress99 https://padlet.com/garrettlandress99/wdd326s68snq/wish/134726221 Ulysses S. Grant was born on April 27, 1822 in Point Pleasant, OH
He died on July 23, 1885 in Wilton, New York.
He born Methodist but was not a religious man.
He went to West Point military academy and graduated July 1, 1843 .
He would also marry and eventual first lady Julia Boggs Dent/Grant.
]]> 2016-11-02 11:52:11 UTC https://padlet.com/garrettlandress99/wdd326s68snq/wish/134726221 Pre- civil war garrettlandress99 https://padlet.com/garrettlandress99/wdd326s68snq/wish/136287226 Grant fights in the Mexican War as a Quartermaster.
Grant and his regiment participated in the battles of Palo Alto, and Resaca de la Palma as part of the army of Zachory Taylor.]]> 2016-11-09 02:49:56 UTC https://padlet.com/garrettlandress99/wdd326s68snq/wish/136287226 Grant during the Civil War garrettlandress99 https://padlet.com/garrettlandress99/wdd326s68snq/wish/136287943 Lincoln appointed Ulysses S.Grant as lieutenant-general of the Union army on March 8,1864.
He made his reputation in Tennessee, at Fort Donelson and at the Battle of Shiloh . Of his later victories, three that stood out were the Vicksburg, Chattanooga, and the Overland campaigns.
At Vicksburg, Mississippi, Grant hoped to break the Confederate grip on the Mississippi River once and for all. If the Union controlled the Mississippi, the Confederacy would be broken in half. 
]]> 2016-11-09 02:57:17 UTC https://padlet.com/garrettlandress99/wdd326s68snq/wish/136287943 garrettlandress99 https://padlet.com/garrettlandress99/wdd326s68snq/wish/136289070 2016-11-09 03:09:14 UTC https://padlet.com/garrettlandress99/wdd326s68snq/wish/136289070 Post civil war garrettlandress99 https://padlet.com/garrettlandress99/wdd326s68snq/wish/136289100 On April 9, 1865 Robert E. Lee surrenders to Ulysses s. Grant at Appomattox Court House Virginia and wins the war for the north.]]> 2016-11-09 03:09:51 UTC https://padlet.com/garrettlandress99/wdd326s68snq/wish/136289100 Grant's Presidency garrettlandress99 https://padlet.com/garrettlandress99/wdd326s68snq/wish/136289710 U.S president from 1869-1877. 
He ratified the 15th amendment which stated that any U.S. citizen's right can not be denied by their race, gender, or previous condition of servitude.
Though he made this change to the constitution it wasn't until nearly 100 years later until President Lyndon Johnson did anything to back it up.]]> 2016-11-09 03:16:26 UTC https://padlet.com/garrettlandress99/wdd326s68snq/wish/136289710 Work ited garrettlandress99 https://padlet.com/garrettlandress99/wdd326s68snq/wish/136290379 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Appomattox_Court_House
http://www.granthomepage.com/grantpresident.htm
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