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11 years after the war spain agrees to make Mexico indpendant
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Stephen Austin lef 300 families to the region
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Independence was issued during a revolution against the mexico goverment
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Mexicans attacked texans and texans won
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630 mexcan soldiers were killed and only nine texans
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Mexican government soon understood that it had committed a great error by encouraging the migration of U.S. citizens with a hankering for independence.
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During his tenure, President James K. Polk oversaw the greatest territorial expansion of the United States to date.
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The first U.S. armed conflict fought on foreign soil.
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The treaty added an additional 525,000 square miles to United States territory
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an agreement between the United States and Mexico, 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
