on grant our president

1. Manuel Perez
10/27/11
Orange 3
Famous influential person

2. Introduction
• Who he was
• Childhood
• Career
• Successes
• Beliefs
• Goals/dreams

3. Hiram Ulysses Grant
• born in Point Pleasant on April 27, 1822
• 18th President of the United States
• Died July 23, 1885, Mount McGregor, New
York

4. Childhood
• Father was a tanner
• he had no interest in military life
• Forced to go to west point military academy
• Given the name Ulysses S. Grant at west point

5. Early Military career
• Second Lieut., 4th Infantry
• fought in the Mexican War
• Cited twice for bravery.
• He resigned from the Army in 1854

6. Military career during civil war
• Major-General, U. S. Army
• led troops to fight battles in the western
theater
• He was both praised and criticized
• helped end the Civil War

7. Presidential career
• Soon After civil war grant was elected president
• Grant wanted to ratify of the Fifteenth Amendment
• sent the military to protect African Americans from
newly formed terrorist groups

8. Successes
• He captured Fort Donelson, Tennessee in February
1862
• He captured Vicksburg
• He broke the Confederate hold on
Chattanooga, Tennessee
• April 9, 1865, Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court
House
• settling of the Alabama claims dispute with Great
Britain

9. Beliefs and morals
• Born Methodist
• Was not religious
• Did not believe in slavery

10. Dreams and goals
• Helped end slavery

11. Conclusion
• Who he was
• Childhood
• Career
• Successes
• Beliefs
• Goals/dreams

12. Work cited
• American President: Ulysses Simpson Grant." Miller Center.
2011. Web. 02 Nov. 2011.
<http://millercenter.org/president/grant>.
• Davis, Todd, and Marc Frey. The New Big Book of U.S.
Presidents. Philadelphia: Courage, 2000. Print.
• Dupuy, Trevor Nevitt., Curt Johnson, and Davis L. Bongard.
The Harper Encyclopedia of Military Biography: An
Invaluable Compilitation and Assesment of the 3000 Most
Important Worldwide Military Figures from Earliest times to
the Present. Edison: Harper/Collins, 1995. Print.
• Morgan, Keya. Uylsses S Grant Home Page. Uylsses S Grant
Home Page, 2009. Web. 19 Oct. 2011.
<http://www.empirenet.com/~ulysses/>.