MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
THE MEXICAN AMERICAN WAR
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Oregon and Texas
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California, Nevada, Utah, part of Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Wyoming
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California, Florida, South Carolina, and Washington
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None of the above
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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: -The war officially ended with the February 2, 1848, signing in Mexico of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. 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.
Detailed explanation-3: -Under the terms of the treaty negotiated by Trist, Mexico ceded to the United States Upper California and New Mexico. 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: -Under the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which settled the Mexican-American War, the United States gained more than 500, 000 square miles (1, 300, 000 square km) of land, expanding U.S. territory by about one-third.