Select two items that were included in the terms of the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo (which ended the Mexican-American War).

•The United States gains the new states of Missouri, Nebraska, Kansas, and Iowa.
•The United States paid Mexico $15 million dollars for land obtained as a result of the end of the war.
•The United States demanded a permanent military presence in Mexico.
•The United States gains territory in present-day California, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Nevada, and parts of Colorado and Wyoming.

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Answer: The United States paid Mexico $15 million dollars for land obtained as a result of the end of the war.

The United States gains territory in present-day California, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Nevada, and parts of Colorado and Wyoming.

Explanation:

  • Before the conflict began, the Americans offered the Mexicans a much higher figure, which they refused. As Mexico was defeated in the war in peace talks, they accepted value of about $ 18 million. The US government has also agreed to take on the Mexican government's debt to the people who lived in the US-owned territory.
  • These territories belonged to America at the end of the war. America allocated the figure mentioned above for these territories and paid the Mexican authorities. The agreement, therefore, gave America a complete area of today's Texas. And the natural boundary between the two countries on the Rio Grande River has also been determined.

The items which were a part of the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo were-

  1. US to gain the territories in the present day CA, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Nevada, Wyoming and Colorado.
  2. The US paid Mexico a sum of $15 million for the land obtained as a result of the end of the Mexican-American War.

So, the correct options that match the statements quoted above are as under B and D.

Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo

  • The Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo was signed between the two countries, Mexico and the USA, to end their long-running war. The treaty was signed in Mexico by the US defense personnel.

  • As a part of this treaty, the USA gained upper hand in owning different territories originally a part of the Mexican geographical boundaries.

  • As a token of goodwill gesture, the USA gave Mexico a sum of $15 million in the year 1848 to give up all the territories mentioned under the treaty.

Hence, the correct options are B and D that the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo ended up in giving several territories to America after a payment of $15 millions upfront.

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