When the war ended, the U.S. had acquired over 500,000 sq. miles of new land, including Texas and the Mexican territories that would eventually become the states of California, Arizona, New Mexico ...

On February 2nd 1848, following a short and one-sided war, Mexico agreed to cede more than half its territory to the United States. An area covering most of present-day Arizona, California, Nevada ...

The contours of the billboard map of Mexico ... The ensuing Treaty of Guadalupe ceded some 525,000 square miles of Mexican territory ... And it was precisely this equation of the old map with ...