MATCHING Match Each Description with the Item Below

question 53

Multiple Choice

MATCHING
Match each description with the item below.
-William T. Sherman

• A)was Lincoln's second vice president
• B)was killed at Chancellorsville by his own men
• C)had his division destroyed at the Battle of Gettysburg
• D)was one of the leaders of the Radical Republicans
• E)marched through Georgia living off the land while destroying plantations, crops,
• and railroad lines
• F)devised the Union's "Anaconda Plan"
• G)was the 1864 Democratic presidential candidate
• H)was the vice president of the Confederacy
• I)was the Union admiral who captured Mobile, Alabama
• J)was the president of the Confederacy

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