True.
"Hughes patented the technology in 1909 and, with partner Walter Sharp, formed the Houston-based Sharp-Hughes Tool Company to manufacture the bit. After Sharp died in 1912, Hughes bought his interest in the company. When he in turn passed away in 1924, Howard Jr., an only child whose mother had died two years earlier, inherited the thriving company and became a millionaire."
•Industry vs. Farming. ...
•States' Rights. The idea of states' rights was not new to the Civil War. ...
•Expansion. As the United States continued to expand westward, each new state added to the country shifted the power between the North and the South. ...
•Slavery. ...
Lincoln Issues the Emancipation Proclamation. One month later, after the qualified Union victory in the Battle of Antietam, Lincoln issued a preliminary proclamation warning that in all states still in rebellion on January 1, 1863, he would declare their slaves “then, thenceforward, and forever free.”
The Vandals tribe occupied the Balearic Islands