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America's westward movement and manifest destiny |
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Westering immigrants making camp in the snow |
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Brigham Young, leader of the Mormons |
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Salt Lake City |
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Stephen F. Austin |
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Alamo |
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Sam Houston |
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James Knox Polk |
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American troops under Zachary Taylor storming the hills
at Monterey, September 1846 |
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Sacramento, boomtown, 1850’s picture |
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Overland Mail Stagecoach |
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Runaway slave poster |
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Handbill-appeared following the passage of fugitive
slave law |
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Return of Thomas Sims and Anthony Burns |
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Harriett Beecher Stowe |
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Scene from Uncle Tom’s Cabin
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