USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The resulting treaty required Mexico to cede 55 percent of its territory including the present-day states of California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, and most of Arizona and Colorado. Mexico also relinquished all claims for Texas and recognized the Rio Grande as the southern boundary of Texas.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -The core of the treaty defined the “Mexican Cession, ” the territory that Mexico was obliged to cede to the United States as a result of the war. The Mexican War was the culmination of a series of conflicts between Mexico and the United States.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Mexican Cession (Spanish: Cesión mexicana) is the region in the modern-day southwestern United States that Mexico originally controlled, then ceded to the United States in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848 after the Mexican–American War.