[ 527 ] U.S. History GED ® TEST SOCIAL STUDIES FLASH REVIEW _____________ • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Use the campaign poster and paragraph to answer the following three questions. In 1872, Ulysses S. Grant ran for the presidency as the incumbent. Grant was the leader of the Radical Republicans, a faction of the Republican Party that felt the South should continue to be punished for its rebellion during the Civil War. His opponent, Horace Greeley, was also a Republican. Greeley believed that the South had suffered enough for the war and that Congress should end Reconstruction, a program under which federal troops occupied the South. Greeley formed the Liberal Republican Party; the Democratic Party also adopted Greeley as its candidate. Greeley’s campaign attempted to paint the first Grant administration as deeply corrupt; this strategy failed with voters, and Grant won the election of 1872 in a landslide. The campaign poster suggests that voters in 1872 were most concerned about a. the corruption of the first Grant administration. b. Grant’s record as a Civil War hero. c. whether Reconstruction should continue. d. which candidates could best relate to their concerns.