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Raking up the mud
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Reconstruction Plans
100

This president succeeded Lincoln after he was assasinated.

Who was Andrew Johnson?

100

This writer wrote "The Jungle" to raise awareness about the cleanliness of the meat industry.

Who was Upton Sinclair?

100

This president proposed the ten percent plan for speedy reunification of the Union and the Confederacy.

Who was Abraham Lincoln?

100

What amendment stated that citizens cannot be denied the right to vote because of race or color?

What is the 15th Amendment?

100

The main advocate for the "Ten Percent Plan".

Who is Abraham Lincoln?

200

This president was elected as the 22nd and 24th of the United States.

Who was Grover Cleveland?

200

This writer wrote "The Shame of the Cities" to reveal widespread corruption in urban management.

Who was Lincoln Steffens?

200

This president was a prominent commanding general figure in the American Civil War.

Who was Ulysses S. Grant?

200

What were the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments collectively known as?

What are the Civil War Amendments?

200

The group of people who were for punishing former Confederate States.

Who are the Radical Republicans?

300

This cartoonist took down Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall.

Who was Thomas Nast?

300

The writer wrote "History of Standard Oil" to reveal corruption in oil companies.

Who was Ida Tarbell?

300

This president was elected in 1881 and died in office in the same year.

Who was James A. Garfield?

300

This was a congressional response to Lincoln's plan. It required 50% of Southern voters to take the oath of loyalty before rejoining the union. Lincoln pocket-vetoed this bill even though it was passed in both houses of Congress.

What is the Wade-Davis Bill?

300

The bill that wanted 50% of a Confederate State’s votes before readmitting it to the Union.

What is the Wade-Davis Bill?

400

This president was a known trust buster and focused on breaking "bad" monopolies.

Who was Theodore Roosevelt?

400

This president coined the term "muckrakers".

Who was Theodore Roosevelt?

400

This president signed the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882.

Who was Chester A. Arthur?

400

Which act was passed by Congress immediately following the veto of President Andrew Johnson? 

What did the act declare?

What is the Civil Rights Act of 1866?

What is an act that declared that all persons born in the United States were now citizens, without regard to race, color, or previous condition?

400

The agency that helped and provided for those newly freed.

What is the Freedmen's Bureau?

500

These democrats were against Republican reconstruction policies.

Who were redeemers?

500

This writer wrote "How the Other Half Lives," which highlighted poverty in the slums and led to social reforms.

Who was Jacob Riis?

500

This president, who based his entire presidential election campaign on the promise to not enter WWI, signed the United States into World War I by declaring war on Germany.

Who was Woodrow Wilson?

500

This was a United States federal law that was intended to restrict the power of the President of the United States to remove certain office-holders without the approval of the Senate.

What is the Tenure of Office Act?

500

One of the three states reconstructed under the Ten Percent Plan.

What is Tennessee, Louisiana, or Arkansas?

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