Who was ulysses s. grant?
1.the union general who was credited with winning the civil war and who was elected president in 1868
2.the confederate general who surrendered at the end of the civil war and who was elected president in 1868
3.a member of the us senate and the first african american politician to serve in congress
4.a democratic governor of new york and an unsuccessful presidential candidate in 1876

1. The Union general who was credited with winning the Civil War and who was elected president in 1868

Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885) served as General of the Union at the end of the American Civil War from 1864 to 1865 and led the Union army to a victory against the Confederacy. He was proclaimed by many as a national hero.

Three years later, he won the presidential election as a Republican nominee and served as the 18th president of the United States from  1869 through 1877.

in mcculloch v. maryland (1819) the supreme court ruled that congress had implied powers under the necessary and proper clause of article i, section 8 of the constitution to create the second bank of the united states and that the state of maryland lacked the power to tax the bank.

gibbons v. ogden, (1824), was a landmark decision in which the supreme court of the united states held that the power to regulate interstate commerce, granted to congress by the commerce clause of the united states constitution, encompassed the power to regulate navigation.