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.
It was not purchased; it was won over the Mexican-American War (1846-1848). All Texas was anexed.
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The desert southwest of the United States includes southern California, and much of the states of Nevada, Arizona, Utah, New Mexico and smaller parts of Colorado and Texas.
The Chihuahuan desert is in Arizona, New Mexico ,Western Texas, and Mexico
Much of the southwestern United States is covered by desert. Deserts cover major parts of California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Colorado and Utah.
Much of the southwestern United States is desert. It is primarily found in the following states: California Nevada Arizona New Mexico Texas Utah Colorado
The Chihuahuan Desert enters far west Texas, much of southern New Mexico, southeastern Arizona and central Mexico all the way to Zacatecas.
Arizona is bordered by the U.S. states California, Nevada, Utah and New Mexico. To the south Arizona is bordered by the Mexican states of Sonora and Baja California.
Southern California, Southern Nevada, Much of Arizona, the southern half of New Mexico, far west Texas, southern Utah all have a hot and dry climate.
Mexico lost much of its territory. Taxes were lowered which were high under the Mexican government.
From California to Texas, and the Oregon territory up the the 49th parallel.
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.
Hernando de Soto explored much of Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and southern California.