The US gained lands from Texas, New Mexico, and California
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Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo was an 1848 treaty in which Mexico gave up California and New Mexico to the United States for 15 million
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It was signed in 1848.
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was major victory for Nicholas Trist, the head of the State Department. He negotiated Mexican surrender as well as a large piece of land.
The treaty allowed the United States to purchase the territory from Mexico.