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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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