Match Each Description with the Item Below

question 13

Multiple Choice

Match each description with the item below.
-Thaddeus Stevens

• 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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Definitions:

Adam Smith

A Scottish economist and philosopher, best known for his theories on free market economics and the ‘invisible hand’ concept.

Peasants

Historically, members of the lower social class in rural areas, typically farmers who own or rent small plots of land for cultivation.

Legitimate Power

Authority that is recognized and accepted by others within an organizational or social structure, often derived from an official position or role.

Tyranny

Rule by those who wield their power oppressively and abusively.