. Sadlier's excelsior studies in the history of the United States, for schools. the other South-em States had been reconstructed, had granted negro suffrage, andenforced a strict registry law, they were permitted to participate in Orant and Colfax were elected. STUDY NO. 11. GRANT.—HAYES. 1. Grants Administration (1869-1877) is noted for (1.) The Adoption ofTHE Fifteenth Amend-ment, (1870). (2.) The Treaty ofWashington, (1871). (3.) The Celebrationof the Centennial ofAmerican Independence,(1876). (4.) War with theSioux [soo], (1877). 2. The FifteenthAmendment^ guaran-teeing the r
. Sadlier's excelsior studies in the history of the United States, for schools. the other South-em States had been reconstructed, had granted negro suffrage, andenforced a strict registry law, they were permitted to participate in Orant and Colfax were elected. STUDY NO. 11. GRANT.—HAYES. 1. Grants Administration (1869-1877) is noted for (1.) The Adoption ofTHE Fifteenth Amend-ment, (1870). (2.) The Treaty ofWashington, (1871). (3.) The Celebrationof the Centennial ofAmerican Independence,(1876). (4.) War with theSioux [soo], (1877). 2. The FifteenthAmendment^ guaran-teeing the right of suffrageto all, irrespective of race, color, or previous conditioiiof servitude having been ratified by the requisite numberof States, was formally announced as a part of the Constitu-tion, by Hamilton Fish, Secretary of State, March 30, 1870. 3. Prosperity of the Conn try. — The nationrapidly recovered from the effects of war. The price of goldfell to 110, and the national debt was reduced $204,000,000during the first two years of this administration. A general. GENERAL ULYSSES S. GRA^TT. GRANT. 351 amnesty to all connected with the Civil War was proclaimed,and the bitter feelings engendered by fraternal strife fastmelted away. The South, devastated and scourged by themarch of contending armies, gradually became accustomedto the novel conditions of free labor, and began to rebuildher railroads, cultivate her fields, and repair the ravages ofwar. The census of 1870 showed that the population of theUnited States was ovex thirty-eight millions, an increase ofabout seven milHons, while the manufacturing establishmentsof the country had nearly, if not quite, doubled in numberand value during the preceding decade. 4. Fires.—(1.) A great fire broke out in Chicago, Sunday night»October 8, 1871. For two days it raged with tremendous violence,devastating 3,000 acres. 25,000 buildings were burned, $200,000,000worth of property was destroyed, and 100,000 persons were render
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