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  1. 2. taylor was the 12th President of the United States, serving from March 1849 until his death.
  2. 5. trail a series of educational computer games that began with the very first edition originally developed by Don Rawitsch, Bill Heinemann, and Paul Dillenberger in 1971
  3. 7. proviso an American law to ban slavery in territory acquired from Mexico in the Mexican War.
  4. 8. houston was an American soldier and politician.
  5. 9. gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California.
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  1. 1. gold rush news of gold brought some 300,000 people to California from the rest of the United States and abroad.
  2. 3. freedom from external control or influence; independence.
  3. 4. purchase is a 29,670-square-mile region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that the United States purchased via a treaty signed on December 30, 1853, by James Gadsden, U.S. ambassador to Mexico at that time
  4. 6. k.polk was an American politician who served as the 11th President of the United States.
  5. 10. mexican-american war an armed conflict between the United States of America and the United Mexican States from 1846 to 1848.