Spain ceded California to The United States.
Kentucky was not ceded from another country, but it was ceded from another state. It became independent from Virginia ins 1792.
Spain.
france
ceded
California and New Mexico.
California.
Not at all. The territories won over from Mexico were present-day California, Nevada, Utah, and parts of Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, and Wyoming.
California was a part of Alta California, a region of Mexico that the US acquired as a result of the Mexican-American War. This area wasn't annexed but was ceded.
it ceded from the union
The Gold Rush of 1849, which came the year after Mexico ceded California to the US following the Mexican-American War.
It became a US Territory after it was ceded by Spain to the US.
Alta California became a part of the US on 2 February 1848 under the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.