President Ulysses S

President Ulysses S. Grant was reelected in 1872 largely because

A) the Democrats and Liberal Republicans could not decide on a single candidate.
B) he promised reforms in the political system.
C) he pleaded for a clasping of hands across "the bloody chasm" between the North and South.
D) the Democrats and Liberal Republicans nominated the eccentric newspaper editor Horace Greeley as their candidate.
E) federal troops still controlled the South.