RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
PRESIDENT ULYSSES S GRANT
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Washington University in Virginia.
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President of the Confederacy States.
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President of the United States.
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -August 4, 1865. The Board of Trustees unanimously elects General Robert E. Lee as president of Washington College.
Detailed explanation-2: -In Appomattox, Virginia, on April 9, 1865, Robert E. Lee surrenders his 28, 000 Confederate troops to Union General Ulysses S. Grant, effectively ending the American Civil War.
Detailed explanation-3: -In 1865, Lee became president of Washington College (later Washington and Lee University) in Lexington, Virginia; in that position, he supported reconciliation between North and South. Lee accepted the extinction of slavery provided for by the Thirteenth Amendment, but opposed racial equality for African Americans.
Detailed explanation-4: -Robert Edward Lee was born in 1807, into a prominent family at Stratford Hall in Virginia. Soon after Robert’s birth, his father’s poor financial management forced the family to leave Stratford Hall.