Question

For this project you are going to explain the importance of social and cultural movements within the Progressive Era, including significant individuals/groups such as Booker T. Washington, Ida B. Wells, W.E.B. DuBois, NAACP, muckrakers and Upton Sinclair and including movements such as the Harlem Renaissance, women’s suffrage, labor movements, and socialist movement.
1. who or what your topic is, 2. what they did during the Progressive Era that was so important, and 3. how or why what they did is still impacting us today. You must cite at least 3 sources (Not Wikipedia, although that is great place to start looking.)

Answer 1

Answer:

President of the United States during the Civil War, his administration lasting from 1861 to 1865.

Republican. He planned to only prosecute Confederate leadership after the war. He believed in giving rights to African Americans and wanted to protect them by the law, enforcing reconstruction acts. He was assassinated and thus, passed the hat to Andrew Johnson, his Republican VP, in 1865.

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