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1. At the conclusion of the Civil War, General Ulysses S. Grant accepted gifts of houses and money from citizens. 2. In the presidential election of 1868, Ulysses S. Grant owed his victory to the votes of former slaves. 3. As a result of the Civil War, waste, extravagance, speculation, and graft reduced the moral stature of the Republic. 4. In the late nineteenth century, those political candidates who campaigned by “waving the bloody shirt” were reminding voters of the “treason” of the Confederate Democrats during the Civil War.