the Mexican Cession
After Mexico surrendered, they finally recognized Texas as part of the U.S. and accepted the border of Texas and Mexico as the Rio Grande instead of the Nueces River. In addtion, Mexico ceded a large area of land the incorporated present day New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, California, Arizona, Wyoming, Colorado, and Montana. The only land of these states aquired after the war are small parts of California, New Mexico, Arizona, and Montana.
us won the war with mexico
Feb 1904
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo , 1848
Gadsden Purchase. It was done largely to get land needed for a southern railroad line.
Mexico and Canada.
The war with Mexico changed the US border and land holdings significantly. The US was advantaged as it acquired New Mexico to be part of United States.
US-Mexico border
The Mexican Cession.
Mexico and Canada
The Gadsden Purchase of 1853, named for ambassador James Gadsden, was for a strip of Mexican land which the US bought in order to build a transcontinental railroad through it and to settle some of the border issues between the US and Mexico.
Canada in the north and Mexico in the south have land borders with the US.