Match Each Description with the Item Below

question 73

Multiple Choice

Match each description with the item below.
-Jefferson Davis

• A)was an African American abolitionist leader who celebrated the Emancipation Proclamation, in contrast to Confederates' predictions of a race war
• B)was a Confederate general who surprised the Union army at Chancellorsville but was shot there by his own men
• C)founded the American Red Cross and visited the killing fields with medical supplies, ready to go "anywhere between the bullet and the battlefield"
• D)was one of the leaders of the Radical Republicans who urged "reconstruction" of the South by having Union armies seize southern plantations
• E)accepted the post of Union general despite his better judgment and went on to be replaced by Thomas Hooker
• F)was born into slavery but went on to serve as a nurse and operate a school for freed slaves
• G)was a general demoted due to insubordination and went on to be the 1864 Democratic candidate against Abraham Lincoln
• H)was a War Democrat who supported Lincoln's war policies and went on to become his vice president
• I)was a pro-Confederate leader who ordered his followers to destroy Lawrence, Kansas, and engage in a massacre there
• J)was the president of the Confederacy and experienced growing discontent directed at him as the war dragged on

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