MATCHING Match Each Description with the Item Below

question 35

Multiple Choice

MATCHING
Match each description with the item below.
-Susan B. Anthony

• A)was a northern free black and Union soldier who was elected lieutenant governor of Louisiana
• B)was a senator from Massachusetts, a leading Radical Republican
• C)asked that the Fifteenth Amendment be modified to include women
• D)was secretary of war under Johnson until 1867
• E)was a black Mississippi native elected to the Senate
• F)was a senator from Kansas who cast the deciding vote in favor of acquittal at Johnson's trial
• G)was the Democratic presidential candidate in 1876
• H)opposed Grant in 1872 presidential election
• I)was the former vice president of the Confederacy elected to the U.S. Senate representing Georgia in 1865
• J)his would-be assassin got cold feet and wound up tipsy in the hotel bar

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