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