USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -This treaty, signed on February 2, 1848, ended the war between the United States and Mexico. 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-2: -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-3: -Won by the Americans and damned by its contemporary critics as expansionist, it resulted in the U.S. gaining more than 500, 000 square miles (1, 300, 000 square km) of Mexican territory extending westward from the Rio Grande to the Pacific Ocean.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Territory of New Mexico was an organized incorporated territory of the United States from September 9, 1850, until January 6, 1912. It was created from the U.S. provisional government of New Mexico, as a result of Nuevo México becoming part of the American frontier after the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.