Match Each Description with the Item Below

question 24

Multiple Choice

Match each description with the item below.
-Ulysses S. Grant

• A)was a northern free black and Union soldier who was elected lieutenant governor of Louisiana
• B)was a leading Radical Republican who wanted to replace southern planters with a new generation of small farmers
• C)was a leader of the women's rights movement who asked that the Fifteenth Amendment be modified
• D)was a Union general who was appointed to lead the Freedmen's Bureau in 1865 and helped freed slaves attain labor contracts
• E)was a black Mississippi native elected to the Senate despite negative reactions from southern whites
• F)was a Union general during the Civil War who was from working-class origins and went on to serve as president
• G)was a wealthy corporate lawyer who became the Democratic presidential candidate in 1876 and initially appeared likely to win
• H)was a newspaper editor who went on to oppose Grant in the 1872 presidential election and alienated northern voters
• I)was the former vice president of the Confederacy elected to the U.S. Senate representing Georgia in 1865
• J)was nearly assassinated the same day as Abraham Lincoln, but his would-be assassin wound up drunk in a hotel bar

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