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Place where James Marshall found gold starting the Gold Rush
a) Yosemite Park
b) Sutter's Mill
c) Saan Trail
d) Candlestick Park

Treaty that ended the Mexican American War
a) Treaty of Ghent
b) Treaty of Versailles
c) Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
d) San Jacinto Act

To give up
a) Cede
b) Grant
c) Bequeath
d) Purchase

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
a) Gadsden Purchase
b) National Annexation
c) Mexican Cession
d) Wilmot Proviso

Led the Mormons into Utah
a) Thomas Whitman
b) Henry Longfellow
c) James Thoraeu
d) Brigham Young

German immigrant who made his fortune through the fur trade
a) George Meade
b) John Marshall
c) John Jacob Astor
d) William Becknell

Practice of having more than one wife at a time
a) Espousal
b) Wedlock
c) Polygamy
d) Betrothal

Mission in the Texas territory that becomes a holdout for 13 day siege
a) Trinity Church
b) Palo Alto Mission
c) Rancho de Carrictos
d) The Alamo

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
a) Wilmot Proviso
b) Mexican Purchase
c) Mexican Cession
d) Annexation Clause

Attack where one side attacks a city or a fort
a) Barricade
b) Siege
c) Blockade
d) Quarantine

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