USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Article XII engaged the United States to pay, “In consideration of the extension acquired", 15 million dollars (equivalent to $470 million today), in annual installments of 3 million dollars. Article XI of the treaty was important to Mexico.

Detailed explanation-2: -The U.S. government paid Mexico $15 million “in consideration of the extension acquired by the boundaries of the United States” and agreed to pay American citizens debts owed to them by the Mexican government.

Detailed explanation-3: -Its provisions called for Mexico to cede 55% of its territory (present-day Arizona, California, New Mexico, and parts of Colorado, Nevada and Utah) in exchange for fifteen million dollars in compensation for war-related damage to Mexican property.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Gadsden Purchase, or Treaty, was an agreement between the United States and Mexico, finalized in 1854, in which the United States agreed to pay Mexico $10 million for a 29, 670 square mile portion of Mexico that later became part of Arizona and New Mexico.

Detailed explanation-5: -In November 1845, Polk sent John Slidell, a secret representative, to Mexico City with an offer to the Mexican government of $25 million for the Rio Grande border in Texas and Mexico’s provinces of Alta California and Santa Fe de Nuevo México.