Along with providing nursing and medical support services during the war, the U.S. Sanitary Commission
a. helped many women acquire organizational skills and self-confidence that they would use in the postwar women´s rights movement.
b. helped garner public respect for the medical profession.
c. provided medical training to a large number of African Americans.
d. enabled many women to serve as spies while nursing.
e. made major breakthroughs in germ theory and the prevention of deaths due to infection.
a
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A. moderate reform in order to head off revolution B. revolutionary change in labor laws C. the tradition of aristocratic authority D. the independence of Scotland and Ireland
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a. local rulers protesting the French monopolization of the European trade. b. Napoleon III's intervention after the rejection of French missionaries. c. French commercial interests in silk. d. protests against French education systems imposed on native children. e. none of these.