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| The percentage of white southerners who owned slaves in 1860 | What is 25 percent? |
| His invention of the cotton gin helped to perpetuate the institution of slavery. | Who is Eli Whitney? |
| These southern state laws regulated slavery in the antebellum south. | What are slave codes? |
| In 1860, there were about 50,000 of this type of large plantation owner in the south. | What are planters? |
| This slave led a bloody slave revolt in Virginia in 1831. | Who is Nat Turner? |
| He brought the first Americans into Mexican Texas, c. 1821. | Who was Stephen Austin? |
| In 1830, Mexico banned the importation of these laborers into Mexican Texas. | What are slaves? |
| In 1836, this Mexican general and dictator tried to crush movement for independence in Texas. | Who was Santa Anna? |
| Among the famous Americans to die at the Alamo, were Davy Crockett, William Travis, and this inventor of a huge hunting knife. | Who is Jim Bowie? |
| This Texan defeated the Mexicans at the Battle of San Jacinto. | Who is Sam Houston? |
| In 1824, this nation dropped its claim to Oregon. | What is Russia? |
| As part of the Transcontinental Treaty, 1819, this nation dropped its claim to Oregon. | What is Spain? |
| By the 1840s, many Americans believed in this phrase, i.e., that America was destined to populate the North American continent. | What is manifest destiny? |
| Under the Oregon Treaty in 1846, the U.S. split Oregon with Britain along this parallel of latitude. | What is the 49th parallel? |
| The U.S. annexation of this republic in 1845, helped lead to the Mexican War. | What is Texas? |
| This American general was sent to the Rio Grande River in early 1846 to protect Americans. | Who is Zachary Taylor? |
| This American general captured Mexico City in September, 1847. | Who is Winfield Scott? |
| This treaty ended the Mexican War. | What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo? |
| The U.S. paid this amount of money for the so-called Mexican Cession. | What is $15,000,000? |
| This man founded the Mormon church in the 1820s. | Who was Joseph Smith? |
| The Mormons originated in this northeastern state. | What is New York |
| The Mormon headquarters were in this midwestern state when Joseph Smith was killed in 1843. | What is Illinois? |
| After Joseph Smith’s death, leadership of the Mormons fell to this man. | Who is Brigham Young? |
| The Donner Party was stranded in these snow-covered mountains in 1846. | What are the Sierra Nevada Mountains? |
| Under this 1830 act, President Andrew Jackson moved the southeastern Indians west of the Mississippi River. | What is the Indian Removal Act? |
| The so-called South Carolina Exposition and Protest was written by this man in 1828. | Who is John C. Calhoun? |
| When Jackson replaced Adams men with his own, he called it rotation in office, but Jackson enemies used this phrase. | What is the spoils system? |
| Jackson defeated this “Great Compromiser” for President in 1832. | Who is Henry Clay? |
