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Louisiana Purchase
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. -
Santa Fe Trail
The Santa Fe Trail was a 19th-century transportation route through central North America that connected Franklin, Missouri with Santa Fe, New Mexico. -
Battle of Alamo
Key conflict as Mexican General Santa Anna defeats Texans -
Battle of San Jacinto
Texan victory led by Sam Houston, Texas Independence -
Oregon Trail
The route over which settlers traveled to Oregon in the 1840s and 1850s. -
Annexation of Texas
The incorporation of the Republic of Texas into the United States of America , which was admitted to the Union as the 28th state. -
Mexican American War
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. -
Brigham Young (Mormons)
Led Mormons to Utah for religious freedom/escaping religious persecution. -
Treaty of Guadulupe-Hildalgo
brought an official end to the Mexican-American War (1846-1848) . -
Gadsden Purchase
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. -
Fort Laramie Treaty
Promised Indianss control of the Central Plains, Indians agreed not to attack migrants as they crossed the Plains.
