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The eastern part of the Oregon Trail spanned part of the state of Kansas, and nearly all of what are now the states of Nebraska and Wyoming. The western half of the trail spanned most of the states of Idaho and Oregon.
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brief conflict between the United States and Native Americans led by Black Hawk, a Sauk leader.
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fought in San Antonio Texas
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texas became independent
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11th president of the United States.
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armed conflict between the United States and the United Mexican States
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Mormon settlers left and headed west along the California Trail
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The news of gold brought some 300,000 people to California from the rest of the United States and abroad
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The war officially ended with the February 2, 1848, signing in Mexico of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
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The Gadsden Purchase is a 29,670-square-mile region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico
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an agreement between the United States and the Oglala, Miniconjou, and Brulé bands of Lakota people