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A land deal between the United States and France where the U.S. bought about 827,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million.
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The Santa Fe Trail was a transportation route through central North America that connected Franklin, Missouri with Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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key conflict as Mexican General Santa Anna defeats Texans
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Texan victory led by Sam Houston--Texas Independence
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The route over which settlers traveled to Oregon in the 1840s and 1850s
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the incorporation of the Republic of Texas into the United States of America, which was admitted to the Union as the 28th state
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war between U.S./Mexico; increase of land led to more debates of slavery expanding
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led Mormons to Utah for religious freedom/escaping religious persecution
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Treaty that ended the Mexican-American war/U.S. gains western lands
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Southern part of New Mexico and Arizona bought from Mexico
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promised Indians control of the Central Plains- Indians agreed not to attack migrants as they crossed the Plains
