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Manifest Destiny
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Louisiana Purchase
the United States purchased 828,000 square miles of land west of Mississippi River for 15 million. -
Santa Fe Trail
Old trading trail connecting Missouri to Sante Fe, Mexico. Eventually becomes important route West. -
Battle of Alamo
key conflict as Mexicans General Santa Anna defeats Texans -
Oregan Trail
-most imoportant trail West
-initially used by trappers and hunters -
Battle of San Jacinto
Texas independence -
Annexation of Texas
Texas annexed by U.S -
Mexican and American War
the war between the U.S and Mexico -
Brigham Young
led mormons to Utah for religious freedom/ escaping religious persection -
Treaty of Guadaplupe Hidalgo
ending the Mexican War -
Fort Laramie Treaty
-promised Indians conrol of the Central Plains
-Indians agreed not to the attack migrants as they crossed the plains -
Gadson Purchase
lower Arizona from Mexico
