Match Each Description with the Item Below

Multiple Choice

Match each description with the item below.
-Oliver O. Howard

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