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The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (Spanish: Tratado de Guadalupe Hidalgo) is the peace treaty, largely dictated by the United States to the interim government of a militarily occupied Mexico, that ended the Mexican-American War (1846 - 1848). The cession that the treaty facilitated included parts of the modern-day U.S. states of Wyoming, Colorado, Oklahoma and Kansas as well as the whole states of California, Nevada, and Utah, and, depending on one's point of view, Texas.

The remaining parts of what are today the states of Arizona and New Mexico were later peacefully ceded under the 1853 Gadsden Purchase, in which the United States "paid" an additional $10,000,000. Although it was "sold" for that amount (US$258 billion in 2005 terms), in reality it was credited against Mexico's debt towards the United States (see related questions).

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