feb 2, 1848 - Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is signed Feb. 2, 1848
Description:
-Mexico handed over almost all of the modern Southwest: Arizona, New Mexico, California, Nevada, and Utah-This "land-giveaway" is known as the Mexican Cession
-The US in return paid $15 million for the land to Mexico
-A few years later in 1854, the US paid an additional $10m to a cash-strapped Mexico in the Gadsden Purchase which gave the US additional land in the southern regions of modern Arizona and New Mexico intended for a transcontinental railroad
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Date:
feb 2, 1848
Now
~ 177 years ago