WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
GILDED AGE POLITICS
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Question
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How did President Ulysses S. Grant benefit from the Whiskey Ring Scandal?
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Money from the whiskey was being put into a campaign fund for his re-election.
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Grant was responsible for organizing the illegal shipment of whiskey into the US
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Grant was promised a fourth term as president.
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None of the above.
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -The Whiskey Ring, along with other alleged abuses of power by the Republican party, contributed to a national weariness of Reconstruction, which ended Grant’s presidency with the Compromise of 1877.
Detailed explanation-2: -In 1865, as commanding general, Ulysses S. Grant led the Union Armies to victory over the Confederacy in the American Civil War. As an American hero, Grant was later elected the 18th President of the United States (1869–1877), working to implement Congressional Reconstruction and to remove the vestiges of slavery.
Detailed explanation-3: -Whiskey Ring, in U.S. history, group of whiskey distillers (dissolved in 1875) who conspired to defraud the federal government of taxes.
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