Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

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The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was the treaty that ended the Mexican-American War of 1846 to 1848. Under the treaty, Mexico surrendered 1,360,000 km² (525,000 square miles, known as the Mexican Cession) to the United States for a sum of USD $15 million.

The cession included parts of the modern-day states of Texas, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, and Wyoming, and the whole of California, Nevada, and Utah. The remainder of what are today the states of Arizona and New Mexico was later ceded under the 1853 Gadsden Purchase.

On February 2, 1848, the treaty was signed by Nicholas P. Trist for the USA and three plenipotentiary representatives of Mexico at the Villa of Guadalupe (today Gustavo A. Madero), a few kilometers to the north of Mexico City. It was subsequently ratified by the United States Senate on March 10 and by the Mexican government on May 19; the countries' ratifications were duly exchanged on May 30, 1848, at the city of Santiago de Querétaro.

External links

• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and related resources at the U.S. Library of Congress
• Text of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo