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A governor of this state called on Henry Crabb to bring in a militia to support him, only to massacre Crabb’s men at Caborca after they arrived. French privateer Gaston de Raousset-Balbon was executed in this state’s port of Guaymas after his invasion was stopped by José Maria Yanez. This state’s governor Manuel María Gandara allied with indigenous groups like the Opata. This state was the more easterly of two that William Walker targeted in his first filibuster. Members of a rebellious (*) indigenous nation in this state were deported and enslaved on (“emphasize”) another state’s henequen plantations after an 1896 revolt against Porfirio Díaz. (-5[1])Alvaro Obregón and Plutarco Calles are both from this state, where the Yaqui people resisted governance during the Mexican Revolution. This state ceded land to Arizona in the (10[1])Gadsden (-5[1])Purchase. For 10 points, name this state of Mexico west of Chihuahua, (10[2])which (10[1])shares its name with a desert. (10[1])■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: Sonora
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