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- The movement of population from farms to cities
- A person who invests in a business to make a profit
- The desire to purchase goods or services at a specific price
- Laws that controlled the lives of enslaved African Americans
- The change from manual production to machine-powered production
- A machine that could spin several threads at once
- At night on the Oregon Trail, the riders would "circle the wagons' to protect themselves from Indian attacks
- How long did it take the wagon trains to complete the trip on the Oregon Trail?
- When Spain gave Moses Austin a land grant to colonize the area now known as Texas, how many Catholic families was he supposed to gather to bring to the area?
- In what year did the U.S. annex the Republic of Texas?
- After Father Serra built his first mission in San Diego, how many additional missions did he build?
- Along what latitude did the U.S. and Britain agree to divide the Oregon Country?
- The Oregon Trail got a lot of traffic for more than 20 years. About how many Americans reached Oregon between 1840 and 1860?
- In what year did the United States and Great Britain agree to divide the Oregon Country?
- In what year was gold discovered in California?
- A Political cartoon does not need context to be understood
- -treatment of a dead body, sterilize or protect it from decay-outcry for fallen soldiers to be returned to their families for burial
- The Seminole Wars were very costly. How many Seminole Wars were fought to gain their land?
- The Spanish Missionaries forced the Native Americans they encountered to practice the Roman Catholic faith
- What Presidential Candidate run under the slogan "Tippecanoe and Tyler, too"?