Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Bayan yakin basasa, Ulysses S. Grant ya shafe shekaru hudu a matsayin shugaban sojojin Amurka a lokacin zaman lafiya. Tare da shan kashi na Robert E. Lee da kuma Confederacy, Grant shi ne mafi mashahuri mutum a kasar. Kamar yadda yakin basasa ya ƙare Grant ya mayar da hankalinsa ga Plains a Amurka ta Yamma inda akwai rikice-rikice da yawa tsakanin fararen fata, 'yan ƙasa, da' yan asalin ƙasar Amirka da suka haifar da yaƙe-yaƙe tsakanin 'yan asalin ƙasar da sojojin Amurka. Yayin da Fenian suka yi kokarin mamaye Kanada
Da kuma Faransanci da hannu a Mexico ya dauki wasu daga cikin lokaci, Grant ta babbar mayar da hankali ne a kan Reconstruction na kayar da kudancin jihohi. Grant ya sami kansa a tsakanin Shugaba Andrew Johnson, wanda yake son jinƙai ga Kudu da ci gaba da tsarin zamantakewa a can, da kuma 'yan Jamhuriyar Republican a Majalisa, waɗanda suke son azabtar da shugabannin' yan tawaye da ƙarin taimakon gwamnati ga bayin da aka 'yantar. Grant ya kiyaye shahararsa da ikonsa a duk lokacin rikicin da ya kai ga tsige Johnson. A shekara ta 1868, 'yan Republican sun zabi Grant a matsayin shugaban kasa, kuma ya lashe nasara a kan dan takararsa na Democrat.