Mexico
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Sam Houston
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Anthony Burns
runaway slave
gold
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Free Soil Party
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Oregon Trail
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Alamo
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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
"one big reservation"
Native Americans
"higher law"
William Seward
"Fifty-four forty or fight!"
Oregon
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"Mr. Polk's War"
"Popular sovereignty"
49ers
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Ostend Manifesto
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