Which of the following actions was not taken by Ulysses S. Grant as
president during Reconstruction?
(A) Passing legislation to protect the rights of African-Americans to vote
(B) Passing legislation to suppress the infl uence of the Ku Klux Klan
(C) Extending pardons to a broader number of Confederates
(D) Increasing the size of the Northern military in the South
(E) Overseeing the ratifi cation of the Fifteenth Amendment