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- THIS TREATY SAW MEXICO CEDECALIFORNIA AND NEW MEXICO TOTHE UNITED STATES, AND RECOGNIZETHE RIO GRANDE AS THE SOUTHERNBORDER OR TEXAS, IN RETURN FOR$15 MILLION DOLLARS
- FOUNDED BY JOHN HUMPHREYNOYES, THIS UTOPIAN COMMUNITYATTRACTED HARSH CRITICISM FORITS POLICIES OF FREE LOVE ANDCOMMUNAL CHILD-REARING
- THIS FORMER SLAVE AND POWERFULORATOR (SPEAKER) FROM MARYLANDBECAME ONE OF THE MOSTWELL-KNOWN AFRICAN AMERICANABOLITIONISTS OF THE NINETEENTHCENTURY
- THE SON OF AN ENSLAVED FATHER,THIS AFRICAN AMERICANABOLITIONIST AND WRITER CALLEDFOR ENSLAVED PEOPLE TO TAKE UPARMS AGAINST SLAVEHOLDERS
- PROPOSED BY HENRY CLAY OFKENTUCKY, THIS COMPROMISEADMITTED MAINE AS A FREE STATEWHILE DIVIDING THE LOUISIANATERRITORY INTO FREE ANDPRO-SLAVERY SECTIONS
- THIS PRIVATE MILITARY INVASION OFCENTRAL AMERICA SAW ANAMERICAN SLAVEHOLDER INSTALLEDAS KING OF NICARAGUA (AT LEASTTEMPORARILY)
- KNOWN FOR HIS BOOK WALDEN, THISMASSACHUSETTSTRANSCENDENTALIST SOUGHT TO"LIVE DELIBERATELY" IN NATURE
- THESE TWO COUNTRIES FURNISHEDMOST OF THE IMMIGRANTS WHOTRAVELED TO THE UNITED STATESDURING THE 1820S - 1840S
- NAMED FOR THE PENNSYLVANIACONGRESSMAN WHO PROPOSED IT,THIS "PROVISO" WOULD HAVEBARRED SLAVERY FROM ALLTERRITORY IN THE MEXICAN CESSION
- THIS NATIVE OF PALMYRA, NEWYORK, FOUNDED THE MORMONCHURCH FOLLOWING A SERIES OFRELIGIOUS VISIONS BEGINNING IN1820
- ANOTHER NAME FOR THE TERRITORYCAPTURED (AND PAID FOR) BY THEUNITED STATES DURING THEMEXICAN WAR
- THIS NINETEENTH-CENTURYREFORMER LED A CRUSADE FOR THEBUILDING OF MENTAL HOSPITALS
- THIS NINETEENTH-CENTURYAMERICAN REFORMER CALLED FORTHE CREATION OF MANDATORY,TAX-FUNDED PUBLIC SCHOOLS
- THIS DICTATOR AND GENERAL LEDMEXICAN FORCES DURING THE TEXASREVOLUTION AND SIGNED OVERCONTROL OF TEXAS FOLLOWING THEBATTLE OF SAN JACINTO
- THIS IMAGINARY LINE DRAWN BY THEBRITISH GOVERNMENT FOLLOWINGTHE FRENCH AND INDIAN WARFORBAD SETTLERS FROM CROSS THEAPPALACAHIAN MOUNTAINS
- Who founded The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the religion of the Mormons?
- Where did most immigrants to the United States come from between 1840 and 1860?
- Why was President Lincoln initially reluctant to make the Civil War about ending slavery?
- What territories did the United States gain as a result of the Mexican War?
- Enslaved African Americans made up approximately what percentage of the Southern population?