Question

Why were General Ulysses S. Grant's surrender terms to General Robert E. Lee at Appomattox Court House considered "generous"? A. He promised government jobs to all of Lee's soldiers. B. He allowed Lee's men to keep their horses and side arms. C. He threw an elaborate banquet for Lee's officers. D. He offered to take Lee to Washington to meet the president.

Answer 1

B. He allowed Lee's men to keep their horses and side arms.

Step-by-step explanation:

On April 9, 1865, the leader of the Confederacy, Robert E. Lee, and the leader of the Union, Ulysses S. Grant, met in The Appomattox Court House to sign the documents that put an end to the civil war and established the surrender of the Confederacy to the Union. A document whose surrender terms were widely considered generous to the defeated Confederacy because all Confederate men were pardoned and all Confederate military equipment was relinquished except their horses and side arms.

Answer 2

"B. He allowed Lee's men to keep their horses and side arms" is the best option from the list since Grant was of Lincoln's attitude that reconciliation should be made as quickly as possible.