[DOC] [TLE] JEOPARDY! Game - April 22, 2004 [PAR] $5000 - Tom. (30) Since entering the U.S. from Mexico in the 1890s, it's cost the 
cotton industry billions upon billions of dollars. DAILY DOUBLE WAGER $5000. [DOC] [TLE] Cotton Boll Weevil - PaDIL Plant Biosecurity Toolbox [PAR] Since then, the National Cotton Council of America estimates that it has cost 
America's cotton producers more than $US15 billion from yield losses and costs 
to ... the economic havoc the boll weevil was wreaking on U.S. cotton production. 
... The newly developed adult eats its way out of the square or small boll and 
feeds on... [DOC] [TLE] Measuring Worth - Measuring the Value of a Slave [PAR] Slavery was an ancient practice on the North American continent. ... which is 
popularly credited with sparking an explosion in cotton production in the South. 
..... value of all slaves in the United States was equal to $2,000,000,000 (two 
billion dollars. ... cost of a slave in the South in 1860, and its equivalent in current 
dollars. [DOC] [TLE] The Empire and the People - History Is A Weapon [PAR] Even before the war against Mexico carried the United States to the Pacific, the ... 
Not long after, some Americans began thinking into the Pacific: of Hawaii, Japan, 
.... in the key tobacco, cotton, and wheat areas, had long depended heavily on ... 
new investments by American capitalists overseas reached a billion dollars. [DOC] [TLE] History of Mississippi - Wikipedia [PAR] The state of Mississippi's history extends to thousands of years of indigenous 
peoples. Evidence of their cultures has been found largely through archeological 
excavations, as well as existing remains of earthwork mounds built thousands of 
years ago. Native American traditions were kept through oral histories; the 
Europeans .... Migrants from the United States entered Mississippi mostly from 
the north... [DOC] [TLE] Economy of California - Wikipedia [PAR] The economy of California is the largest in the United States. As of 2015, 
California's gross ... Despite a major conflict in the U.S. Congress on the number 
of slave versus ... In 1886 the first refrigerated cars on the Southern Pacific 
Railroad entered ... The California Aqueduct, developed at the cost of several 
billion dollars,... [DOC] [TLE] Mississippi - Wikipedia [PAR] Mississippi Listen/msspi/ is a state located in the southern region of the 
United States, with part of its southern border formed by the Gulf of Mexico. Its 
western border is formed by the Mississippi River. ... during the plantation era. 
Since 2011 Mississippi has been ranked as the most religious state in the country
. [DOC] [TLE] Answer: B - SVSU [PAR] Which political party focused most of its efforts on the problem identified in this 
song? A. Bull Moose ... B. cost the United States many billions of dollars. C. was a
... [DOC] [TLE] A Short History of American Capitalism: CAPITALISM DOMINANT ... [PAR] U.S. Steel did not attempt to create a complete monopoly in the industry. It "set 
prices at a level that would earn profits for its weaker competitors, but not so high 
.... By the 1890s, New England textile mills began to close shop and move to the 
South. .... After the Mexican-American War, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (
1848)... [DOC] [TLE] NON-NATIVE SPECIES: TED Case - American University [PAR] Since Florida was first colonized, several thousand foreign plant and animal 
species ... The cost to taxpayers of introduced species in Florida was estimated in 
a 1993 ... boll weevil, originally from Mexico, in the 1890's now exceeds 50 billion 
dollars. ... for example, feeding upon a native species to the point of its extinction. [DOC] [TLE] A Short History of American Capitalism: THE TESTING OF ... [PAR] Nevertheless, its heritage consisted in the second testing period, 1929-1940, the 
... During the decade, manufacturers invested an average of $5.3 billion annually 
(in 1958 dollars). ... 11 In the steel industry "wages fell steadily after 1920. .... On 
cotton farms in central Texas during the 1920s, "tenants who dared to grow their...

Question: Since entering the U.S. from Mexico in the 1890s, it's cost the cotton industry billions upon billions of dollars
Answer: the boll weevil