Ratification. Mending the Family Kettle. The U.S. Senate passed the proposed amendment by the required two-thirds majority on June 8, 1866, and the House of Representatives passed it on June 13, 1866, which sent it to the states for ratification. No Virginians served in Congress when it submitted the amendment to the states.
The Father of American Railroads. John Stevens (1749-1838) was the scion of a prominent family in colonial New Jersey. During the Revolutionary War he served as state treasurer. In the postwar period he became intrigued by experiments in steam navigation by men such as John Fitch.
Help with History Homework? What impact did Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller have on the American economy in the last half of the 1800s? (Points : 1) They established and dominated the new steel and oil industries. As secretary of the treasury and secretary of labor, they oversaw the reconstruction process. They built the transportation industry and oversaw the completion of the transcontinental railroad.