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The Louisiana Purchase encompassed 530,000,000 acres of territory in North America that the United States purchased from France in 1803 for $15 million.
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The Santa Fe Trail was a 19th-century 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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Mexican cavalry attacked a group of U.S. soldiers in the disputed zone under the command of General Zachary Taylor, killing about a dozen. They then laid siege to an American fort along the Rio Grande.
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Led Mormons to Utah for religious freedom/escaping religious persecution.
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brought an official end to the Mexican-American War (1846-1848) .
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an agreement between the United States and Mexico, finalized in 1854, in which the United States agreed to pay Mexico $10 million for a 29,670 square mile portion of Mexico that later became part of Arizona and New Mexico.
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Promised Indianss control of the Central Plains, Indians agreed not to attack migrants as they crossed the Plains.
