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Father MIguel Hidalgo y Costilla rebeled with 80,000 poor Indians and mestizos
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John Jacob Astor founded the fur trading post Astoria
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Mexico became independent
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Stephen F. Austin started a Texas colony
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Joseph Smith founded the first Mormon church
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Texans declared Independence
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Battle of San Jacinto
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John Sutter started a colony in California
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5,000 people occupid Willamette Valley
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Texas was part of US
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Taylor led his groups to Rio Grande
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Veracruz fell
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Californios surrendered to the Bear Flag Revolt
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Mexico City fell
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Oregon became US territory
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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
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California placed high tax on foreigns
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Gadsden Purchase
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40,000 Mormons lived in Utah
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Completion of transcontinental railroad
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Mormon practice was outlawed by the church