1845 - Mexican American War
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The United States annexed Texas in 1845, and angered the Mexicans. They stated a war, and lost badly, losing all of the southwest, Arizona, New Mexico, California, and of course Texas. With the purchase of Alaska from the Russians a few years earlier, the continental United States was what it looks like today, just in territories rather than states. The Mexican American war was the famous out with the Alamo.

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