Treaty of Guadelupe Hidalgo - USA gains Texas and California from Mexico

Historical Context Note

Litencyc Editors (Independent Scholar - Europe)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 4.1.3: Hispanic Writing and Culture of Central America and the Caribbean.
Vol. editors: Ben Bollig (University of Oxford), Ceire Broderick (University College Cork), Nuala Finnegan (University College Cork), Anna Forné (Gothenburg University), Cara Levey (University College Cork), Lori Oxford (Western Carolina University), Ailsa Peate (University of Westminster)

Domains

Treaties and alliances

Dates

Date of occurrence 1848-02-02

Places

Mexico (Location)
United States (Location)

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The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was named for the suburb of Mexico City where it was signed on 2 February 1848 by a rump Mexican government and Nicholas Trist, Chief Clerk at the State Department under President Polk. The treaty ended the Mexican-American war of 1846-1848, nominally fought to secure the Annexation of Texas, but the Treaty also conveyed to the United States all the territory of present-day California, Nevada and Utah, as well as much of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Wyoming, in all about 525,000 square miles or 1.36m square kilometres, about 55% of Mexico's pre-war territory . The United States paid Mexico $15m for this land, and assumed $3.25m in debts owed by Mexico to U.S. citizens, a considerable discount on the $45m which President Polk had been prepared to pay…

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Citation: Editors, Litencyc. "Treaty of Guadelupe Hidalgo - USA gains Texas and California from Mexico". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 26 May 2008 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=4906, accessed 26 April 2024.]

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