USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -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). Mexico also relinquished all claims to Texas and recognized the Rio Grande as the southern boundary with the United States (see Article V).

Detailed explanation-2: -Mexico also relinquished all claims to Texas, and recognized the Rio Grande as the southern boundary with the United States.

Detailed explanation-3: -The treaty added an additional 525, 000 square miles to United States territory, including the land that makes up all or parts of present-day Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming. Mexico also gave up all claims to Texas and recognized the Rio Grande as America’s southern boundary.

Detailed explanation-4: -The treaty was signed on behalf of the United States, by Nicholas Trist, the State Department’s chief clerk, and by three Mexican representatives: Luis Cuevas, Bernardo Couto and Miguel Atristain.

Detailed explanation-5: -Mexican officials and Nicholas Trist, President Polk’s representative, began discussions for a peace treaty that August. On February 2, 1848 the Treaty was signed in Guadalupe Hidalgo, a city north of the capital where the Mexican government had fled as U.S. troops advanced.