Presidential Campaign Of The Year 1868 Essay

The candidates in the presidential campaign of the year 1868 included two men, Ulysses S. Grant and Horatio Seymour. During these times, there was only two political parties: the Democratic and Republican party. Ulysses S. Grant represented the republican party and Horatio Seymour represented the democrat party. The issues that occurred during the presidential campaign were….

After the election, the candidate who won was General Ulysses S. Grant. Therefore the republican party won the presidential election. In total, Ulysses S. Grant had gathered 214 electoral votes, where as Horatio Seymour had only a total of 80 electoral votes. At the time the presidential candidate only needed 214 electoral votes to win the presidency because not all of the 50 states were established at the time. In the year 1868 there was only a total of 294 electoral votes. Therefore you only needed to get 148 electoral votes to win presidency. Ulysses S. Grant had 214 so he

Grant also established the Indian Appropriation Act which “ended tribal recognition and the treaty system to make all Indians wards of the state” (http://us-presidents.insidegov.com/l/20/Ulysses-S-Grant). Lastly, another major legislation was passed was the Civil Rights Act of 1870 which “made it a federal crime to deprive of anyone of his civil or political rights by interfering with the right to vote.”