question: In August 1836, two real estate entrepreneursAugustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allenfrom New York, purchased 6,642 acres (26.88 km2) of land along Buffalo Bayou with the intent of founding a city. The Allen brothers decided to name the city after Sam Houston, the popular general at the Battle of San Jacinto, who was elected President of Texas in September 1836. The great majority of slaves in Texas came with their owners from the older slave states. Sizable numbers, however, came through the domestic slave trade. New Orleans was the center of this trade in the Deep South, but there were slave dealers in Houston. Thousands of enslaved African-Americans lived near the city before the Civil War. Many of them near the city worked on sugar and cotton plantations, while most of those in the city limits had domestic and artisan jobs. In 1860 forty-nine percent of the city's population was enslaved. A few slaves, perhaps as many as 2,000 between 1835 and 1865, came through the illegal African trade. Post-war Texas grew rapidly as migrants poured into the cotton lands of the state. They also brought or purchased enslaved African Americans, whose numbers nearly tripled in the state from 1850 to 1860, from 58,000 to 182,566.
1. Who was Sam Houston?
2. What else was important in his life?
3. In 1860 what percent of Houston's population was comprised by slaves?
4. Where did most of them come from?
5. Was there a slave trade in Houston?
6. Before the Civil War were there plantations near Houston?
7. What kind?
8. Were there slaves working on them?
9. What kind of work did slaves in the city do?
10. Were there a lot of slaves from African trade?
11. In 1860 what was the slave population?
12. Who founded the city?
13. Where did they come from?
14. What was their profession?
15. Was African slave trade legal?
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answer: 1. a general at the Battle of San Jacinto
2. he was elected president of Texas
3. forty-nine
4. the older slave states
5. yes
6. yes
7. sugar and cotton plantations
8. yes
9. domestic and artisan jobs
10. a few
11. 182,566
12. Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen
13. New York
14. real estate
15. no

(CNN) -- Mark McGwire deserves a ban from baseball more than any sympathy.

It is sad to hear his quavery confession of a career filled with steroids, his sorrow over the pain it caused his family and fans, his revelation of a life of lies that burned inside him like a hidden disease and consumed the game he loved.

But for those of us who also love baseball, the damage he did was too deep and his further threat to the integrity of the game is too great to justify his return.

McGwire's entire playing career is indelibly stained and his judgment is not to be trusted. What else are we to make of a man who cheated and didn't come clean for 20 years? Can he be trusted to coach other players who may be using steroids? Is he fit for any job that is also a test of character and personal standards? Baseball should bar him from coaching and never again allow his name on a Hall of Fame ballot.

St. Louis manager Tony La Russa, McGwire's longtime apologist, is leading the charge to rehabilitate him in his new role as the Cardinals' batting coach, saying Monday's admission and expression of regret is worthy of respect.

This from a manager who either closed his eyes to drug use on his teams, didn't know what he should have known, or kept conspiratorially silent about it through all the years with McGwire on the Oakland Athletics (along with Jose Canseco) and on the Cards. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Which sport does Mark McGwire play?
2. What drugs did he use?
3. Is he sad about that?
4. Whom did he cause pain?
5. Who else?
6. How long was it until he confessed?
7. Does the author think he should be in the Hall of Fame?
8. What about being a coach?
9. Who is the manager of St. Louis?
10. Does he support McGwire?
Answer: 1. baseball
2. steroids
3. yes
4. his family
5. fans
6. 20 years?
7. no
8. no
9. Tony La Russa
10. yes

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. Chapter 17: The North Coach.

Barnet was then, as now, a somewhat straggling place. Soon after entering it, the horseman turned off from the main road. His pursuers were but fifty yards behind him, and they kept him in sight until, after proceeding a quarter of a mile, he stopped at a small tavern, where he dismounted, and a boy took his horse and led it round by the side of the house.

"Run to earth!" Harry said exultantly. "He is not likely to move from there tonight."

"At any rate, he is safe for a couple of hours," Charlie said. "So we will go to our inn, and have a good meal. By that time it will be quite dark, and we will have a look at the place he has gone into; and if we can't learn anything, we must watch it by turns till midnight. We will arrange, at the inn, to hire a horse. One will be enough. He only caught a glimpse of us at that inn, and certainly would not recognize one of us, if he saw him alone. The other can walk."

"But which way, Charlie? He may go back again." "It is hardly likely he came here merely for the pleasure of stopping the night at that little tavern. I have no doubt he is bound for London. You shall take the horse, Harry, and watch until he starts, and then follow him, just managing to come up close to him as he gets into town. I will start early, and wait at the beginning of the houses, and it is hard if one or other of us does not manage to find out where he hides." 1. Who said to run?
2. Who was he talking to?
3. Where did the second man say they would go?
4. And do what?
5. Who were they following?
6. How far were they away from him?
7. Where did he halt?
8. What happened to his steed?
9. What did he do with it?
10. What did Charlie suggest they had to do?
11. Until what time?
12. Would they both do that at once?
13. Would they both ride?
14. Where did Harry think the man was headed?
15. Who did he think should ride?
16. What did he want him to do?
17. And then what?
18. In the meantime, where would he be waiting?
19. What was the name of the location this happened?
numbered_answers:
1. Harry
2. Charlie
3. to their inn
4. have a good meal
5. the horseman
6. fifty yards
7. a small tavern,
8. a boy took his horse
9. led it round by the side of the house.
10. have a look at the place he has gone into;
11. midnight
12. hire a horse.
13. no
14. London
15. Harry,
16. watch until he starts
17. follow him,
18. at the beginning of the houses,
19. Barnet