USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -All or parts of the following present-day states were part of the Mexican Cession except Oklahoma. The Mexican Cession included all or part of the following states: California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Wyoming.

Detailed explanation-2: -Shown is the area Mexico ceded to the United States in 1848, minus Texan claims. The Mexican Cession consisted of the present-day U.S. states of California, Nevada, Utah, most of Arizona, the western half of New Mexico, the western quarter of Colorado, and the southwest corner of Wyoming.

Detailed explanation-3: -This was known as the Mexican Cession and included present-day Arizona and New Mexico and parts of Utah, Nevada, and Colorado (see Article V of the treaty).

Detailed explanation-4: -By its terms, Mexico ceded 55 percent of its territory, including the present-day states California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, most of Arizona and Colorado, and parts of Oklahoma, Kansas, and Wyoming.

Detailed explanation-5: -What was the Mexican Cession? It was the land of California, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and parts of Colorado and Wyoming.