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A ten-gallon hat holds only about ¾ gallon. The name is thought to come from the Spanish tan galán, meaning “very gallant,” or galón, “braid.”

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Three maps display the shifting borders between the United States and Mexico from 1835 to 1848. The 1835 map shows a large Mexico and Territories region and the United States and Territories. The 1844 map marks the Republic of Texas, a disputed area between Texas and Mexico, and the remaining Mexico and Territories. The 1848 map, after the Mexican-American War, shows the United States expanded to

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How the Border Between the United States and Mexico Was Established

Despite the acceptance by many Americans in the 1840s of the concept of Manifest Destiny—that it was the providential right of the United States to expand to the Pacific Ocean—the future boundary between the United States and Mexico was anything but a foregone conclusion. Great Britain, with whom

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