What major foreign policy decisions were made during president ulysses s. grants presidency by the U.S.?

Question

it can be treaties, negotiations, wars etc.... please include items that occured as a result of presidential or congressional work, and which it pertained to foreign affairs.



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Answer 1

1. The 1871 Treaty of Washington, negotiated by Secretary of State Hamilton Fish. It settled American claims against Britain concerning the wartime activities of the British-built Confederate raider CSS Alabama.
2. He proposed to annex the independent, largely black nation of Santo Domingo. This was not successful but it led to the ouster of Sen. Sumner.
3. Settlement of the Liberian-Grebo War of 1876 through the dispatchment of the USS Alaska to Liberia where US envoy James Milton Turner negotiated the incorporation of Grebo people into Liberian society and the ousting of foreign traders from Liberia.

Answer 2

Grant was a great general, but as President he trusted his friends too much, and presided over not one but two economic crises, the Panic of 1869 and the Panic of 1873 which led to the nastiest depression the nation had yet seen. He was elected because he was popular, but he was in over his head. A good man, a great general, but a poor President. If he had conducted the Presidency the way he had conducted his military campaigns, Barack Obama might be the 3rd of 4th black President instead of the 1st, and the only problems right-wingers would have with him would be based on policy, because, if Grant had done to the KKK and the like in the 1870s what he did to the Confederacy in the 1860s, racism would be as are as Communism in America today.