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What was Ulysses S. Grant’s policy regarding Reconstruction?

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After the American Civil War the former Confederate states reinstated their antebellum racial hierarchy through repressive laws and the Ku Klux Klan’s anti-Black terrorist activity. Pres. Ulysses S. Grant pushed for Black men’s right to vote through the Fifteenth Amendment and supported legislation that punished those who tried to limit that constitutional right.