In August 1836, two real estate entrepreneurs—Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen—from 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. QUESTIONS:

Q1:
1. What was Sam Houston known for?
2. What did Sam Houston do?
3. What was Sam Houston's claim to fame?
Q2:
1. What was Sam Houston known for, besides being a general?
2. What did Sam Houston do, in additio nto his career as a general?
3. What was Sam Houston's claim to fame, apart from being a general?
Q3:
1. What percent of Houston's 1860 population was made up of slaves?
2. What percent of Houston residents were slaves in 1860?
3. In 1860, what percentage of the Houston population were enslaved persons?
Q4:
1. Where did most of Houston's slaves come from?
2. Where did most of the enslaved people in Houston come from?
3. How did most enslaved people come to be in Houston?
Q5:
1. Did Houston have a slave trade?
2. Did the slave trade take place in Houston?
3. Did slave trading occur in Houston?
Q6:
1. Were there plantations near Houston before the Civil War?
2. Prior to the Civil War, did Houston have any plantations near it?
3. Were there plantations close to Houston prior to the Civil War?
Q7:
1. What kind of plantations did Houston have near it?
2. What sort of plantations were close to Houston?
3. What was grown on the plantations by Houston?
Q8:
1. Did slaves work on the plantations near Houston?
2. Were the plantations near Houston powered by forced labor?
3. Were enslaved persons forced to work on the plantations near Houston?
Q9:
1. How were enslaved persons put to work in the city of Houston?
2. What kind of work did the enslaved persons in the city of Houston do?
3. What was the work of enslaved persons in the city of Houston?
Q10:
1. Did many of Houston's slaves come from the African trade?
2. Was the African trade the source of many of Houston's slaves?
3. Did a lot of the enslaved persons in Houston originate from the African trade?
Q11:
1. What was the slave population of Texas in 1860?
2. How many enslaved persons lived in Texas in 1860?
3. What was the number of enslaved persons living in Texas in 1860?
Q12:
1. Who founded Houston?
2. What were the names of Houston's founders?
3. Who was Houston created by?
Q13:
1. Where did Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen come from?
2. Where did Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen originate from?
3. what was Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen's original place of residence?
Q14:
1. What was the profession of Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen?
2. How were Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen employed?
3. What did Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen do for a living?
Q15:
1. Was it legal to trade slaves?
2. Was the trafficking of slaves legal?
3. Was it okay within the law to participate in the slave trade?
