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Towns where many mining communities decayed and died

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Towns that were truly wild and violent places

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4,000 gold-crazed prospectors swarmed over the property, destroying the colony and bankrupting Sutter

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The Mexican government sold 30,000 square miles of what is now southern New Mexico and Arizona to the United States for $10 million

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A treaty that explained 4 reasons about Mexico's weak bargaining position

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A war where Mexican troops engaged in a skirmish with Taylor's forces in late April 1846

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To join or attach

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Obvious or undeniable fate

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A low spot in a mountain range that allows travelers to over to the other side

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Trail linking Independence Missouri, and Oregon, used by many pioneers during the 1840's

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Journey

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Hardy trappers that were some of the toughest and most colorful characters in the country's history

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Trail that  linked Independence, Missouri and Santa Fe, New mexico

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Under the control of the state rather than the Church

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Forts

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A siege by a vastly larger Mexican force

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People who continually migrate instead of living permanently in one place

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They bough items from one source and them sold them to others

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Vast grassland that lies between the Mississippi Riven and the Rocky Mountains