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How much did the US pay for Texas New Mexico Arizona and California?
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The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo authorized the payment of 15 million dollars which was about 380 million dollars in today's money to Mexico for parts of Utah, Nevada, and Colorado as well as most of present day California, New Mexico and Arizona.
Nothing was paid for Texas since the US took the position that Texas had won its Independence.
The Gadsden Purchase was also a separate purchase of lands touching the American Southwest.
At that time in history it was considered to have been a waste of money by many who had not bought into the concept of Manifest Destiny. The US was in the position to offer Mexico a Take it or Leave it Deal. Failure to accept could have resulted in even further death and destruction and the total assimilation of Mexico into the United States. Mexico took the money and ran with it.
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How much did the US pay Mexico for Texas New Mexico Arizona and California after the Mexican-American war?
It was $15 million.
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What did the US acquire in the Gadsden Purchase of 1853 Northern California and Oregon Southern Arizona and part of New Mexico California and Arizona Utah Nevada and Colorado?
After the Mexican-American War, the United States was forced to withdraw their troops from much of the conquered land that makes up modern-day Mexico. After peace was made, The United States government paid cash money for the area of southern Arizona that was encompassed in the Gadsden Purchase as a way to pacify the new, much smaller, Mexican nation.
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