Westward Expansion 2

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German immigrant who made his fortune through the fur trade

Mission in the Texas territory that becomes a holdout for 13 day siege

Name of event In 1853 where the United States paid Mexico $10 million for a narrow strip of land of present day Arizona and New Mexico achieving Manifest Destiny

As a result of the treaty ending the war, Mexico ceded 55 percent of its territory, including the present-day states California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, most of Arizona and Colorado, and parts of Oklahoma, Kansas, and Wyoming. This is known as the

Place where James Marshall found gold starting the Gold Rush

Attack where one side attacks a city or a fort

Practice of having more than one wife at a time

To give up