Daily Quiz for March 8, 2009

General U. S. Grant‚s order read, "The Jews, as a class, violating every regulation of trade established by the Treasury Department, and also Department orders, are hereby expelled from the Department." He was responding to a black market trade in Southern cotton and apparently believed that Jewish merchants were the guilty parties. President Lincoln, after hearing from many influential citizens, rescinded the order, pointing out that it would prohibit Jewish families from visiting relatives serving in the Union Army in Grant‚s department. Charges of anti-Semitism dogged Grant the rest of his life.