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Federal agency that greatly assisted blacks educationally but failed in other aid efforts
What is Freedmen's Bureau
100
Heavyweight NY political boss whose widespread fraud landed him in jail in 1871
Boss Tweed
100
Secret, ritualistic labor organization that enrolled many skilled and unskilled workers but collapsed suddenly after the Haymarket Square bombing
Knights of Labor
200
Constitutional Amendment guaranteeing blacks the right to vote
What is the 15th Amendment
200
Mark Twain's sarcastic name for the post-Civil War era, which emphasized its atmosphere of greed and corruption
Gilded Age
200
Federal regulatory agency often used by rail companies to stabilize the industry and prevent ruinous competition
Interstate Commerce Commission
300
Lincoln's 1863 program for a rapid Reconstruction of the South
What is the 10% Plan
300
Precious metal that "soft-money" advocates demanded be coined again to compensate for the "Crime of '73"
Silver
300
Settlement house in Chicago slums that became a model for women's involvement in urban reform
Hull House
400
Derogatory term for white Southerners who cooperated with the Republican Reconstruction governments
What is a scalawag
400
Women's organization founded by reformer Frances Willard and others to oppose alcohol consumption
Women's Christian Temperance Union
400
Federal law that attempted to dissolve tribal landholding and establish Indians as individual farmers
Dawes Severalty Act, 1887
500
Beaten in the Senate chamber before the Civil War, he became the leader of Senate Republican radicals during Reconstruction
Who is Charles Sumner
500
System of choosing federal employees on the basis of merit rather than patronage introduced by the Pendleton Act of 1883
civil service
500
Black educational institution founded by Booker T Washington to provide training in agriculture and crafts
Tuskegee Institute