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Americans kept moving onto the land given to the Native Americans. Fighting broke out and after the Battle of Fallen Timbers, the Native Americans' hopes of keeping their land was crushed. The Native Americans agreed to surrender most of their land in present-day Ohio under the Treaty of Greenville. (The Americans got the land)
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The prohibition of alcohol was not supported by most Americans in the 1920's.
The Mexican Cession was the result of a war caused by the Americans attempting to gain Mexico's land. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo marked the peace. It was in 1848 that the United States gained 500,000 square miles, increasing the size of the U.S by 25%. The Senate ratified the treaty in March of 1848. The states of California, Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, most of Arizona were formed from this land.