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History Studyguide 2
Studyguide for history
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What did the 13th Amendment to the constitution do? | It freed all the slaves in the U.S and the territories. |
| What were block codes designed for? | They're designed for limiting the rights of formal slaves |
| The Freedmen's Bureau helped former slaves by doing what? | By building schools to help them learn to read |
| After 1858, Colorado's Pikes Peak was the site of what business activity? | Mining |
| What was the name of a city that grew at the end of a cattle trail? | Cheyenne, Wyoming |
| What president of a crime did the senate acquaint? | President Andrew Jackson |
| Was Abraham Lincoln assassinated before or after General Robert E. Lee surrendered at the end of the Civil War? | After |
| How is a sharecropper paid? | With part of the crops |
| How was a steel plow important on the Great Plains? | The tough sod was hard to turn over so the steel plow could cut through the sod. |
| who did General George Custer encounter at the Little Bighorn River? | The Sioux |
| Where did the Transcontinental railroad stretch? | From the Atlantic ocean to the Pacific Ocean. |
| How did George Washington aid railroads? | The Air-brake |
| What is the process that's important for the production of oil? | Oil refining |
| What is the name of the oil company that once controlled most of the oil refining in the U.S? | Standard Oil Company |