This amendment abolished slavery.
13th amendment
Name of the railroad that connected western parts of the US to the east.
Transcontinental Railroad
He produced the first steel plant
Andrew Carnegie
He formed Standard Oil Company
John D. Rockefeller
This amendment gave "Equal protection under the law"
14th amendment.
Homestead act gave settlers, how many acres, provided they live there for 5 years.
160 acres
He drilled the first oil dwell.
Edwin Drake
He was a leader in the railroad industry
Cornelius Vanderbilt
This amendment gave African-Americans the right to vote.
15th amendment
Land set aside fro American Indians
reservations
He inveted the first indoor lightbulb
Thomas Edison
Restrictions placed on freedmen. Denied them the right to own land, vote and could only wokred unskilled jobs.
Black codes.
The location of the Great Plains.
Between Missouri River and the Rocky mountains
He discovered 300 ways to use peanut and soy beans
George Washington Carver
Name give to freedmen that paid for the use of land ad had to share a portion of thier crops.
Sharecroppers
At Little Big Horn, Colonel Custer and how many of his trrops were killed.
210
He perfected the fountain pen
Lewis Waterman
He created the typesetting machie
Ottmar Mergenthaler