Ulysses S. Grant: A Presidency Plagued with Scandals

Ulysses S. Grant was president during a time known as the gilded age, a time when all appeared to be good, but the actuality was the government was corrupt with scandals. Although he may have been a great wartime hero and military leader, he had little experience or knowledge to perform as a good president, and this would show when he was elected to office in 1868, and the scandals began. Five prominent scandals would come about in Grant's eight years as America's president. The main scandals of the presidency are the Spoils System, Black Friday, Crédit Mobilier, the Salary…