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Name: Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Type: Event
Start: 1848
End: 1848
Parents: Mexican-American War
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo: All Data
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Was a peace treaty signed on February 2, 1848, in the Villa de Guadalupe Hidalgo (now a neighborhood of Mexico City) between the United States and Mexico that ended the Mexican-American War (1846-1848). It gave the United States the Rio Grande as a boundary for Texas, and gave the U.S. ownership of California and a large area comprising roughly half of New Mexico, most of Arizona, Nevada, and Utah and Colorado.